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10%OFFJennifer Ngaire Heuer - The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830 - 9780801474088 - V9780801474088
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The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830

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Description for The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830 Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.

The French Revolution transformed the nation's—and eventually the world's—thinking about citizenship, nationality, and gender roles. At the same time, it created fundamental contradictions between citizenship and family as women acquired new rights and duties but remained dependents within the household. In The Family and the Nation, Jennifer Ngaire Heuer examines the meaning of citizenship during and after the revolution and the relationship between citizenship and gender as these ideas and practices were reworked in the late 1790s and early nineteenth century.

Heuer argues that tensions between family and nation shaped men's and women's legal and social identities from the Revolution ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801474088
SKU
V9780801474088
Shipping Time
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99-18

About Jennifer Ngaire Heuer
Jennifer Ngaire Heuer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Reviews for The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830
Heuer's interesting and insightful book stands at the intersection of several fields: the history of revolutionary law, the history of gender and the family, and the political history of the modern nation state.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Heuer's imaginative and skillful research succeeds in overturning many unexamined clichés about gender and public life during France's transition into political ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830


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