Eve's Proud Descendants
Subtitle: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780804737548
Subjects: Biography: general; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; France - History; Sociology Of Women; Women's Studies - History; Sociology; France; Social conditions; Europe - France; Women's Studies - General; 19th century; Authors, French; Political activity; Social reformers; Women
First sentence: In a work first published in 1847, Marie d'Agoult (under the pseudonym of Daniel Stern) rewrote the Christian creation story to cast Eve as striking the first blow for human freedom.
Description: "How could women in postrevolutionary France act politically when they lacked political rights, and how could they support an exclusively masculine republicanism? This is a study of four female authors who wrote women into politics and into republicanism by articulating a model of republican womanhood between the two poles of feminist equality and republican motherhood." "These four writers were George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, Hortense Allart, and Delphine Gay de Girardin."--BOOK JACKET.