Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France - Couverture souple

Landes, Joan B.

 
9780801488481: Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
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ISBN 10 : 0801488486 ISBN 13 : 9780801488481
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society. In her lavishly illustrated and gracefully written book, Joan B. Landes explores this paradox within the workings of revolutionary visual culture and traces the interaction between pictorial and textual political arguments. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of the dangers of feminine influence and the seductions of visual imagery. The use of caricatures and allegories contributed to the destruction of the masculinized images of hierarchic absolutism and to forging new roles for men and women in both the intimate and public arenas. Landes tells the fascinating story of how the depiction of the nation as a desirable female body worked to eroticize patriotism and to bind male subjects to the nation-state. Despite their political subordination, women too were invited to identify with the project of nationalism. Recent views of the French Revolution have emphasized linguistic concerns; in contrast, Landes stresses the role of visual cognition in fashioning ideas of nationalism and citizenship. Her book demonstrates as well that the image is often a site of contestation, as individual viewers may respond to it in unexpected, even subversive, ways.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joan B. Landes is Professor of Women's Studies and History at The Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution, also from Cornell, and Feminism, the Public and the Private.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801488486
ISBN 13 
9780801488481
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  080143811X ISBN 13 :  9780801438110
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2001
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