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

Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice,

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

The French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But betw

"Despite critical interest in the role of women in the French Revolution, there is no single, comprehensive study of the works of the two most prolific women wr