This volume covers the distance between the French Revolution and World War I and gives us a picture of a dynamic and expansive bourgeois century in which the role of woman in the home was stressed more and more, even as the economic pressu...
With its Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, the French Revolution opened a whole new stage in the history of women, despite their conspicuous absence from the playbill. The coming century would see women put in their place as nev...