Reason's Muse: Sexual Difference and the Birth of Democracy

by Geneviève Fraisse

The French Revolution proclaimed the equality of all human beings, yet women remained less than equal in the new society. The exclusion of women at the birth of modern democracy required considerable justification, and by tracing the course of this reasoning through early nineteenth-century texts, Genevieve Fraisse maps a moment of crisis in the history of sexual difference.

Through an analysis of literary, religious, legal, philosophical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226259706
• ISBN13: 9780226259703
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"