Surmounting the barricades : women in the Paris Commune / Carolyn J. Eichner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eichner, Carolyn Jeanne, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women revolutionaries--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Women revolutionaries.

Paris (France)--History--Commune, 1871.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France's revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection. Examining the period from the early 1860's through that century's end, Carolyn J. Eichner investigates how radical women developed critiques of gender, class, and religious hierarchies in the immediate pre-Commune era, how these ideologies emerged as a plurality of

Contents:

Cover; TOC; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Actors and the Action; 2. Politics and Ideas: Staging the Struggle; 3. Elisabeth Dmitrieff and the Union des femmes 69 Revolutionizing Women's Labor; 4. André Léo and the Subversion of Gender 97 The Battle over Women's Place; 5. Paule Mink and the Clubistes 129 Anti-Clericalism and Popular Revolution; 6. Dmitrieff and Léo in the Aftermath 153 Radical Denouement; 7. Mink in the Aftermath 179 The Red Flag and the Future; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-271) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612071416

9781282071414

1282071416

9780253111104

0253111102

OCLC:

475970857

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04495 hdl