{"product_id":"citoyennes-annie-k-smart-9781644531037","title":"Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France","description":"\u003cp\u003eDid women have a civic identity in eighteenth-century France? In \u003ci\u003eCitoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e, Annie Smart contends that they did. While previous scholarship has emphasized the ideal of domestic motherhood or the image of the republican mother, Smart argues persuasively that many pre-revolutionary and revolutionary texts created another ideal for women-the ideal of civic motherhood. Smart asserts that women were portrayed as possessing civic virtue, and as promoting the values and ideals of the public sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary critics have theorized that the eighteenth-century ideal of the Republic intentionally excluded women from the public sphere. According to this perspective, a discourse of \"Rousseauean\" domestic motherhood stripped women of an active civic identity, and limited their role to breastfeeding and childcare. Eighteenth-century France marked thus the division between a male public sphere of political action and a female private sphere of the home.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCitoyennes\u003c\/i\u003e challenges this position and offers an alternative model of female identity. This interdisciplinary study brings together a variety of genres to demonstrate convincingly that women were portrayed as civic individuals. Using foundational texts such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's \u003ci\u003eEmile\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eon Education\u003c\/i\u003e (1762), revolutionary gouaches of Lesueur, and vaudeville plays of Year II of the Republic (1793\/1794), this study brilliantly shows that in text and image, women were represented as devoted to both the public good and their families.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition, \u003ci\u003eCitoyennes\u003c\/i\u003e offers an innovative interpretation of the home. Through re-examining sphere theory, this study challenges the tendency to equate the home with private concerns, and shows that the home can function as a site for both private life and civic identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCitoyennes\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground, for it both rectifies the ideal of domestic Rousseauean motherhood, and brings a fuller understanding to how female civic identity operated in important French texts and images.\u003c\/p\u003e Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annie K. Smart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644531038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644531037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Delaware Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/23\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Annie K. Smart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078563787007,"sku":"9781644531037","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1df407e4-a381-4626-abb4-55985124c551.jpg?v=1685476242","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/citoyennes-annie-k-smart-9781644531037","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}