Liberty in Their Names

The Women Philosophers of the French Revolution

Sandrine Bergès (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-22713-2 (ISBN)

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Telling the story of three overlooked revolutionary thinkers, Liberty in Their Names explores the lives and works of Olympe de Gouges, Sophie de Grouchy and Manon Roland. All three were thinking and writing about political philosophy, especially equality and social justice, before the French Revolution. As they became engaged in its efforts, their political writing became more urgent. At a time when women could neither vote nor speak at the Assembly, they became influential through their writings. Yet instead of Gouges, Grouchy and Roland, we speak of Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot.

Sandrine Bergès examines the lives and writings of these trailblazing women philosophers, and their impact on philosophical thought during the French Revolution. Featuring pictures, a timeline and a bibliography of their works, this book offers exciting new insights into the history of political philosophy and of the French Revolution.

Sandrine Bergès is Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University, Turkey. She is the author of The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2013) and co-editor of The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (2018) and Women Philosophers on Autonomy (2018). She is the translator of Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on Sympathy (2019).

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Timeline of the French Revolution

Glossary of People and Places

1. Women in the Revolution

2. The Women and the Prisons: A Walk-Through 18th-Century Paris

3. Awakening to Injustice: The Formative Years of Gouges, Roland and Grouchy

4. Making her own Way: Olympe de Gouges

5. Speaking for Herself: Marie-Jeanne Roland

6. Working Together: Sophie de Grouchy

7. The Women on the Other Side of the Channel

8. The American Dream: From Republican model to Asylum of Freedom

9. The Abolitionist Movement and the Revolution

10. Women in the City

Epilogue: Writing out the Women: Sophie de Grouchy After the Terror

A Revolutionary Bookshelf

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-350-22713-7 / 1350227137
ISBN-13	978-1-350-22713-2 / 9781350227132
Zustand	Neuware