A Certain Emancipation of Women: Gender, Citizenship, and the Causes Célèbres of Eighteenth-century France

A Certain Emancipation of Women: Gender, Citizenship, and the Causes Célèbres of Eighteenth-century France
ISBN-10
157591087X
ISBN-13
9781575910871
Category
Law / Constitutional
Pages
132
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Susquehanna University Press
Author
Tracey Rizzo

Description

This book analyzes court cases anthologized by Nicolas Toussaint Le Moyne Des Essarts in the 1770s and 1780s in which competing notions of honor clashed to bring litigants before the law. Arguing on behalf of their female clients, lawyers featured therein called for the liberation of women from tyrannical fathers, abusive husbands, public opinion, and even oppressive laws in the dozens of seductions, separations, rapes, and infanticides on which this study is based. Moreover, it exposes a liberatory moment, an opening, in which early republican constructions of female citizenship offered virtuous women, regardless of rank or status, strategic possibilities for establishing modern identities - defined as self-creating, autonomous, and capable of moral judgment and reason. While this study contributes insights to a lively conversation engaged by many scholars, its uniqueness stems from its exploration of genre in time and place: no one has yet published a book-length study of Des Essarts' Causes celebres. encyclopedic scope, as well as its popularity, makes it an important source for illuminating features of prerevolutionary discourse. Tracey Rizzo is an Associate Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina-Asheville.

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