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Author Eichner, Carolyn Jeanne, 1961-

Title Surmounting the barricades : women in the Paris Commune / Carolyn J. Eichner.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index.
Contents Part I. Before -- 1. The Actors and the Action -- 2. Politics and Ideas: Staging the Struggle -- Part II. During -- 3. Elisabeth Dmitrieff and the Union des femmes: Revolutionizing Women's Labor -- 4. André Léo and the Subversion of Gender: The Battle over Women's Place -- 5. Paule Mink and the Clubistes: Anti-Clericalism and Popular Revolution -- Part III. After -- 6. Dmitrieff and Léo in the Aftermath: Radical Denouement -- 7. Mink in the Aftermath: The Red Flag and the Future.
Summary This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France's revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection. Examining the period from the early 1860s through that century's end, Eichner investigates how radical women developed critiques of gender, class, and religious hierarchies in the immediate pre-Commune era, how these ideologies emerged as a plurality of feminist socialisms within the revolution, and how these varied politics subsequently affected the fin-de-
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Subject Commune (Paris, France : 1871)
Paris (France) -- History -- Commune, 1871.
Women revolutionaries -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
Women revolutionaries.
France -- Paris.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Eichner, Carolyn Jeanne, 1961- Surmounting the barricades. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004 0253344425 0253217059 (DLC) 2004004564 (OCoLC)54503497
ISBN 0253111102 (electronic book)
9780253111104 (electronic book)
9780253344427 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0253344425 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780253217059 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0253217059 (paperback ; alkaline paper)