Women played a major part in the French Revolution of 1789, but have received very little recognition for their contributions. The many claims and protests put

This volume represents the first book-length study of attitudes toward women in revolutionary France. Based on extensive research in the libraries and archives

During the French Revolution, hundreds of domestic and working-class women of Paris were interrogated, examined, accused, denounced, arrested, and imprisoned fo

In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the male leaders o