The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830
Jennifer Ngaire Heuer
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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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