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Everyday Revolutions
. Ed(S): Boyd, Diane; Kvande, Marta
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Hardback. Editor(s): Boyd, Diane; Kvande, Marta. Num Pages: 287 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 594.
Women's everyday choices can engender revolutionary acts. The essays collected here embrace this premise and go beyond the Habermasian public/private paradigm to look at the ways in which eighteenth-century women defied the restrictions their culture sought to enforce. But while recent studies have linked women to public activity by analyzing revolutionary moments, such work often implies that those moments were isolated within a framework of containment. These essays demonstrate how women of the period were not circumscribed to precious revolutionary moments but instead participated in a web of acts, ranging in scale from work, to politics, to art. Furthermore, our ... Read more
Women's everyday choices can engender revolutionary acts. The essays collected here embrace this premise and go beyond the Habermasian public/private paradigm to look at the ways in which eighteenth-century women defied the restrictions their culture sought to enforce. But while recent studies have linked women to public activity by analyzing revolutionary moments, such work often implies that those moments were isolated within a framework of containment. These essays demonstrate how women of the period were not circumscribed to precious revolutionary moments but instead participated in a web of acts, ranging in scale from work, to politics, to art. Furthermore, our ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611490787
SKU
V9781611490787
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About . Ed(S): Boyd, Diane; Kvande, Marta
Diane E. Boyd teaches English at Furman University. Marta Kvande is an assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University.
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