Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Rainbows and Butterfly Wings The Enlightenment and the Question of Sexual Equality A New Dawn Is Breaking The Cult of Republican Motherhood A Woman's Work Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce The Rights of Women The Beginnings of Reaction The Club des Citoyennes Républicaines Révolutionnaires and the Year II Women in the Aftermath of Revolution Bibliography Index

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Working from original source material produced in 18th-century France, Proctor traces the striking continuity between pre-Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary thought on the equality of women, and addresses such issues as the extent of support for a sexual equality movement and how the men of the Revolution justified the contradiction of personal rights.

About the Author

CANDICE E. PROCTOR has taught at the University of Idaho and at Midwestern State University. She spent a year in France collecting the material for this book, and currently lives in Australia.