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Mita Choudhury - Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture - 9780801441103 - V9780801441103
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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

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Description for Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 3JF; HRCX8. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.

Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers, religious pamphleteers, and men of letters repeatedly asked, "Who should control the female convent and women religious?" These sources chronicled the conflicts between nuns and the male clergy, among nuns themselves, and between nuns and their families, conflicts that were presented to the public in the context of potent issues such as despotism, citizenship, female education, and sexuality.

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Choudhury elaborates on how nuns were not always passive entities, mere objects to be shaped by the political needs of others. But because they relied on men in order to make their voices heard, the place of women religious in the public sphere was a complex one based on negotiations between female action and male subjectivity. During the French Revolution, whatever support they had enjoyed was lost as republicans and moderates began to see nuns as potentially disruptive to the social order, family life, and revolutionary values.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801441103
SKU
V9780801441103
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-21

About Mita Choudhury
Mita Choudhury is Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College. She is coeditor of the ninth edition of Heritage of Western Civilization.

Reviews for Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture
"Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture offers stimulating new insights into debates over women's roles in eighteenth-century France, the place of women in the Catholic Church, and the significance of gender in the political thought of that period."
Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky "I wonder why no one else has explored this subject in this way ... Read more

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