Women, Equality, and the French Revolution

by Candice Proctor

This volume represents the first book-length study of attitudes toward women in revolutionary France. Based on extensive research in the libraries and archives of Paris, the book examines the impact of the Revolution's ideology of liberty and equality. When the men of 1789 wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were thinking in terms of man the male, not man the species. But there were some men and women who interpreted it in terms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031327245X
• ISBN13: 9780313272455
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"