Politics in the marketplace : work, gender, and citizenship in revolutionary France /
Jarvis, Katie(Katie L.),author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-323) and index.
Introduction : inventing citizenship in the revolutionary marketplace -- The Dames des Halles : economic lynchpins and the people personified -- Embodying sovereignty : the October days, political activism, and maternal work -- Occupying the marketplace : the battle over public space, particular interests, and the body politic -- Exacting change : money, market women, and the crumbling corporate world -- The cost of female citizenship : price controls and the gendering of democracy in revolutionary France -- Selling legitimacy : merchants, police, and the politics of popular subsistence -- Commercial licenses as political contracts : working out autonomy and economic citizenship -- Conclusion : fruits of labors : citizenship as social experience.
Halles centrales (Paris, France)
Halles centrales (Paris, France)
Women merchants
Women merchants
Citizenship
Citizenship.
Commerce.
Economics.
Politics in the marketplace