The French Revolution and the Meaning of Citizenship

Autorentext

Renee Waldinger is professor of French and executive officer of the PhD Program in French at the graduate school of the City University of New York.

Philip Dawson is professor of history at the graduate school of the City University of New York and Brooklyn College.

Isser Woloch is professor of history, Columbia University. All three editors are well-published experts on French history and society.

Klappentext

Citizenship is a fundamental concept in social life, entailing rights, obligations, and relationships with others. Modern citizenship did not emerge from a philosopher's study or a laboratory experiment; instead, it was decisively shaped in the French Revolution. This book is about the processes by which that happened.

The creation of a new kind of citizenship was not a simple act. The rights and obligations of citizens were going to be extensive; they needed to be defined and debated. The topics discussed in this book, which detail these rights and obligations, will be of interest to French historians as well as to political scientists and sociologists.

Inhalt

Preface by Renée Waldinger
Introduction by Philip Dawson
Toward New Conceptions of Citizenship
The Evolution of the Citizen from the Ancien Régime to the Revolution by Pierre Rétat
Citoyens, Citoyennes: Cultural Regression and the Subversion of Female Citizenship in the French Revolution by Madelyn Gutwirth
Citizenship in Action 1789-1791
The National Assembly and the Invention of Citizenship by Michael P. Fitzsimmons
Citizenship and Political Alignment in the National Assembly by Harriet B. Applewhite
Responses to Limitations of Citizenship
The Citizen in Caricature: Past and Present by Antoine De Baecque
The Citizen in the Theatre by Marvin C. Carlson
Revolutionary Democracy and the Elections by Patrice Gueniffey
Electoral Behavior during the Constitutional Monarchy (1790-1791): A Community Interpretation by Melvin Edelstein
Citizenship and the Press in the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
The Right to Primary Education in the French Revolution from Theory to Practice by Isser Woloch
Citizenship and Military Service by Alan Forrest
Women's Revolutionary Citizenship in Action, 1791: Setting the Boundaries by Darline Gay Levy
Work and Citizenship: Crafting Images of Revolutionary Builders, 1789-1791 by Allan Potofsky
Marriage, Religion, and Moral Order: The Catholic Critique of Divorce during the Directory by Suzanne Desan
Afterword by Lynn A. Hunt