Only paradoxes to offer : French feminists and the rights of man

Only paradoxes to offer : French feminists and the rights of man / Joan Wallach Scott.

When feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy they faced an impossible choice. On the one hand, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. On the other hand, by the fact that they acted on behalf of women, they introduce...

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Main Author: Scott, Joan Wallach
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Feminism > France > History.
Feminism > France > Case studies.
Feminists > France > History.
Feminists > France > Case studies.
Human rights > France > History.
Women > France > History.
Women's rights > France > History.
Sex role > France > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Féminisme.
Droits civiques.
Histoire.
Women's rights
Sex role
Feminism
Feminists
Human rights
Women
Feminisme.
Vrouwen.
Grondrechten.
Europe.
France
Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rereading the history of feminism
  • The uses of imagination: Olympe de Gouges in the French Revolution
  • The duties of the citizen: Jeanne Deroin in the Revolution 1848
  • The rights of "the social": Hubertine Auclert and the politics of the Third Republic
  • The radical individualism of Madeleine Pelletier
  • Citizens but not individuals: the vote and after.

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