| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : illustrations |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Part I: The family of the nation. New contracts of kinship and citizenship, 1789-1793 -- "Duty to the patrie above all:" the terror -- Part II: Toward a nation of families: transitions in the late 1790s. Fathers and foreigners -- Gender and emigration reconsidered -- Part III: The Napoleonic solution and its limits. Tethering Cain's wife: the Napoleonic civil code -- Looking backward: the consequences of civil death -- Looking forward: women and the application of citizenship law -- Immigration, marriage, and citizenship in the Restoration -- Conclusion: reversals and lasting contradictions |
| Summary |
The French Revolution transformed the nation's--and eventually the world's--thinking about citizenship, nationality, and gender roles. At the same time, it created fundamental contradictions between citizenship and family as women acquired new rights and duties but remained dependents within the household. In The Family and the Nation, Jennifer Ngaire Heuer examines the meaning of citizenship during and after the revolution and the relationship between citizenship and gender as these ideas and practices were reworked in the late 1790s and early nineteenth century.Heuer argues that tensions between family and nation shaped men's and women's legal and social identities from the Revolution and Terror through the Restoration. She shows the critical importance of relating nationality to political citizenship and of examining the application, not just the creation, of new categories of membership in the nation. Heuer draws on diverse historical sources--from political treatises to police records, immigration reports to court cases--to demonstrate the extent of revolutionary concern over national citizenship. This book casts into relief France's evolving attitudes toward patriotism, immigration, and emigration, and the frequently opposing demands of family ties and citizenship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
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HISTORY / Europe / France.
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Social conditions
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Staatsbürger
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Frau
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France -- History -- 1789-1815.
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France -- History -- Restoration, 1814-1830.
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France -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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France -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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France
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Frankreich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004030166 |
| ISBN |
9781501725609 |
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1501725602 |
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