The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830
ISBN: 9781501725609
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



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...


Jennifer Ngaire Heuer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

hidden image for function call