Livre - Women in revolutionary Paris , 1789-1795 : selected documents / translated with notes and commentary by Darline Gay Levy, Harriet Branson Applewhite, Mary Durham Johnson

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Livre

University of Illinois Press

Levy Darline Gay 1939 - ...

Applewhite Harriet Branson 1940 - ...

Johnson Mary Durham

Presentation materielle : XI-325 p.

Dimensions : 24 cm

200 years ago, the women of revolutionary Paris were demanding legal equality in marriage; educational opportunities for girls, including vocational training; public instruction, licensing, and support for midwives; guarantees for women's rights to employment; and an end to the exclusion of women from certain professions. The editors have uncovered, translated, and annotated sixty documents which shed light on these and other socioeconomic struggles by women and their impact on the French Revolutionary era. This work makes a significant contribution to the growing appreciation of the role of women in history, politics, ideology, and social change.

Bibliogr. p. 313-315. Index