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

(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)

by Geneviève Fraisse

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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:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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History Social Science Social Sciences Women in History

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

(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)

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