The family and the nation : gender and citizenship in revolutionary France, 1789-1830 / Jennifer Ngaire Heuer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heuer, Jennifer Ngaire, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--1789-1815.

France.

History.

France--History--Restoration, 1814-1830.

France--Social conditions--18th century.

Social conditions.

France--Social conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.

Summary:

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 and Terror through the Restoration. She shows the critical importance of relating nationality to political citizenship and of examining the application, not just the creation, of new categories of membership in the nation. Heuer draws on diverse historical sources-from political treatises to police records, immigration reports to court cases-to demonstrate the extent of revolutionary concern over national citizenship. This book casts into relief France's evolving attitudes toward patriotism, immigration, and emigration, and the frequently opposing demands of family ties and citizenship.

Contents:

Part I The Family of the Nation 15

1 New Contracts of Kinship and Citizenship, 1789-1793 23

2 "Duty to the Patrie above All": The Terror 44

Part II Toward a Nation of Families: Transitions of the Late 1790s 69

3 Fathers and Foreigners 75

4 Gender and Emigration Reconsidered 99

Part III The Napoleonic Solution and its Limits 121

5 Tethering Cain's Wife: The Napoleonic Civil Code 127

6 Looking Backward: The Consequences of Civil Death 143

7 Looking Forward: Women and the Application of Citizenship Law 158

8 Immigration, Marriage, and Citizenship in the Restoration 174

Conclusion: Reversals and Lasting Contradictions 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-247) and index.

ISBN:

0801442869

OCLC:

57311417