By M. J. Diamond (auth.), M. J. Diamond (eds.)

Taking its place to begin from women's contributions to the French revolution, this crucial anthology is going a ways past any specific ancient, ecu or American context and expands its scope in area and time to an all-inclusive international topic, particularly the contributions of radical girls in the direction of an ever-changing global and its progressive ameliorations in all places. the perfectly edited essays by way of assorted individuals from quite a few continents and disciplines discover a large platform of women's innovative involvements and elucidate the vast diversity of contributions via ladies students, scientists and activists to events of social transformation, in addition to to a reexamination of confirmed equipment of cultural research from enlightened liberalism to Marxism. The contributions of ladies students and activists from Africa, Asia and Latin the USA are really major in that they go beyond and extend European/North American feminism as correct basically to its personal socio-cultural context and concentrate on girls appearing when it comes to their very own non-Western traditions and cultures, that's, on non-Western types in accordance with indigenous thoughts of social transformation. This wealthy anthology shuns any postulation of a unmarried worldwide version for revolution. but, regardless of the emergence of a `problematic dating among Western or Western knowledgeable theorists and the explanations of the oppressed', women's diversified social, cultural and historic studies and methods are united during this variation, as of their universal reasons, as emphasised by way of the subsequent assertion within the creation: `the lady physique has turn into ... a privileged website for social research within the context of overseas capitalism in addition to within the critique of conventional socialism.'
Sabine Jell-Bahlsen, Ogbuide motion pictures
Women and Revolution covers a tremendous socio-historical area, 4 continents - Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin the United States &endash; and numerous international locations inside of them. this large box of human adventure is checked out from the focus which runs explicitly and implicitly via all nineteen chapters: the energetic if no longer innovative function ladies have performed separately and jointly in a number of selecting social occasions, a task usually suppressed by way of the coercive strength of institutionalized domination. The impetus for this undertaking was once the commemoration of the bicentennial of the French Revolution, an party to take an in-depth examine its much less seen agendas, via a spotlight at the job of ladies, and on Olympe de Gouges particularly. yet as Olympe de Gouges turned accustomed to Mr. Guillotine, the enormous position of girls grew to become suppressed not just really yet as a type of damnatio memoriae which the outdated Romans had already invented. As this paintings exhibits, there were a number of kinds and contents by which girls have taken heritage into their very own palms and feature participated in emancipatory struggles in the course of the international. they're at their most sensible of their use of the assets of neighborhood village traditions, of dense social contexts, of mutual reduction and in turning such grassroots assets into radical democratic struggles for the longer term. a desirable and well timed book!.
Wolf-Dieter Narr, Freie Universität Berlin
The very important function performed by means of girls in struggles for social transformation has scarcely been liked, and with the experience of defeat that hangs over the progressive venture, stands to be additional forgotten. for this reason the booklet of Women and Revolution is either welcome and valuable &endash; on highbrow and scholarly grounds, but additionally simply because those are tales that have to learn if we're to renew the march towards a greater global.
Joel Kovel, Bard College

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6. 7. 8. Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and the Effict it has produced in Europe (New York: Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints, 1975), pp. 126-130. As Chantal Thomas shows in her "Heroism in the Feminine" (an unpublished manuscript), Michelet could not reconcile female sensibility with a Revolution conceived in terms of reason. For a summation of historical perspective on revolutionary women, and of Olympe de Gouges in particular, see Olivier Blanc's Olympe de Gouges (Paris: Syros, 1981), Chapter 9.

She was brought up in her mother's peasant, communal and oral tradition with its myths, stories of Catholic saints, fantastic tales and local gossip and her grandparents' regard for literature and enlightenment philosophy. Thus, the musical and poetic performances that structured her daily existence and aesthetically incorporated opposing classes and cultures, provided a proto model for a new society. Michel Louise 27 Michel traces her consciousness of inequality and injustice to the spectacle of the misery and poverty of the peasants and their cruelty to animals.

Mona Ozouf's Lafote revolutionnaire (Paris: Gallimard, 1976). 16 M J. Diamond 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. , French Society and the Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976). , Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979). Joan Landes, Women and the Public Sphere (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988). Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).

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