Only paradoxes to offer : French feminists and the rights of man /
When feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy they faced an impossible choice. On the one hand, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. On the other hand, by the fact that they acted on behalf of women, they introduce...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1996.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Rereading the history of feminism
- The uses of imagination: Olympe de Gouges in the French Revolution
- The duties of the citizen: Jeanne Deroin in the Revolution 1848
- The rights of "the social": Hubertine Auclert and the politics of the Third Republic
- The radical individualism of Madeleine Pelletier
- Citizens but not individuals: the vote and after.
