Eve's proud descendants : four women writers and republican politics in nineteenth-century France

How Could Women In Postrevolutionary France Act Politically When They Lacked Political Rights, And How Could They Support An Exclusively Masculine Republicanism? This Is A Study Of Four Female Authors Who Wrote Women Into Politics And Into Republicanism By Articulating A Model Of Republican Womanhood Between The Two Poles Of Feminist Equality And Republican Motherhood. These Four Writers Were George Sand, Marie D'agoult, Hortense Allart, And Delphine Gay De Girardin.--jacket. Growing Up Female In Postrevolutionary France -- The Erotics Of Writing: Affective Life, Literary Beginnings, And Pseudonyms -- Cassandra, Diotima, Aspasia, And Cleopatra: Challenging The Bluestocking Stereotype In Literary Culture -- Women Writers As Republicans In July Monarchy Political Culture -- Republican Women And Republican Families -- Writing And Rewriting The Revolution Of 1848. Whitney Walton. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [291]-301) And Index. In post-revolutionary France, where they lacked political rights and were subject to an exclusively masculine republicanism, George Sand, Maria d'Agoult, Hortense Allart, and Delphine Gay de Girardin wrote women into politics and republicanism by articulating a model of womanhood between the poles of feminist equality and republican motherhood. Furthermore, continues Walton (history, Purdue U.) the four acquaintances rewrote the republican script regarding family relations, positing egalitarian alternatives to the patriarchal family. "How could women in postrevolutionary France act politically when they lacked political rights, and how could they support an exclusively masculine republicanism? This is a study of four female authors who wrote women into politics and into republicanism by articulating a model of republican womanhood between the two poles of feminist equality and republican motherhood." "These four writers were George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, Hortense Allart, and Delphine Gay de Girardin."--BOOK JACKET. In a work first published in 1847, Marie d'Agoult (under the pseudonym of Daniel Stern) rewrote the Christian creation story to cast Eve as striking the first blow for human freedom.