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The Body and the French Revolution Sex, Class and Political Culture
By Dorinda Outram
Copyright 1989
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event. It was not simply a series of events with worldwide repercussions, but also represented the foundation of the middle-class domination of social, cultural and political space, which survives today and is the site of major crises of public culture. One... Read more
1. The Problem of the Body in Political Culture 2. Modern Histories of the Body 3. Deconstructing the French Revolution 4. The Eighteenth-Century Medical Revolution: Bodies, Souls and the Social Classes 5. A New Public Body: Stoicism, Suffering and the Middle Class in the French Revolution 6. Heroic Suicide: The End of the Body and the Beginning of History 7. The Guillotine, the Soul and the Audience for Death 8. Words and Flesh: Mme Roland, the Female Body and the Search for Power 9. The French Revolution, Modernity and the Body Politic
Biography
Dorinda Outram
