Politics in the marketplace : work, gender, and citizenship in revolutionary France / Katie Jarvis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarvis, Katie (Katie L.), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Halles centrales (Paris, France).

Women merchants--France--Paris--Economic conditions--18th century.

Women merchants.

Women merchants--Political activity--France--Paris--18th century.

Citizenship--France--History--18th century.

Citizenship.

Paris (France)--History--1789-1799--Economic aspects.

Paris (France).

Paris (France)--Commerce--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

'Politics in the Marketplace' integrates politics, economics, and gender to ask how the Dames des Halles invented notions of citizenship through everyday trade during the French Revolution.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-091713-X

0-19-091714-8

0-19-091712-1