{"product_id":"unruly-women-of-paris-gay-l-gullickson-9780801483189","title":"Unruly Women of Paris: The Material Foundations","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this vividly written and amply illustrated book, Gay L. Gullickson analyzes the representations of women who were part of the insurrection known as the Paris Commune. The uprising and its bloody suppression by the French army is still one of the most hotly debated episodes in modern history. Especially controversial was the role played by women, whose prominent place among the Communards shocked many commentators and spawned the legend of the p騁roleuses, women who were accused of burning the city during the battle that ended the Commune.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of the turmoil that shook Paris, the media distinguished women for their cruelty and rage.\u003ci\u003e The Paris-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, for example, raved: \"Madness seems to possess them; one sees them, their hair down like furies, throwing boiling oil, furniture, paving stones, on the soldiers.\" Gullickson explores the significance of the images created by journalists, memoirists, and political commentators, and elaborated by latter-day historians and political thinkers. The p騁roleuse is the most notorious figure to emerge from the Commune, but the literature depicts the Communardes in other guises, too: the innocent victim, the scandalous orator, the Amazon warrior, and the ministering angel, among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGullickson argues that these caricatures played an important role in conveying and evoking moral condemnation of the Commune. More important, they reveal the gender conceptualizations that structured, limited, and assigned meaning to women as political actors for the balance of the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gay L. Gullickson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801483182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801483189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Gay L. Gullickson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926128001279,"sku":"9780801483189","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_55d90259-62ef-4f23-99de-2ed15224ed0f.jpg?v=1681081360","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unruly-women-of-paris-gay-l-gullickson-9780801483189","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}