"This historical study examines the way women used writing to create themselves as modern individuals in post-Revolutionary France.--From publisher description"--OCLC
The French Revolution created a new cultural world that freed women from the constraints of corporate privilege, aristocratic salons, and patriarchal censorship, even though it failed to grant them...
In this concise and powerful book, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical...