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Title: The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Centennial Book) by Lynn Hunt ISBN: 0-520-08270-2 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I am one of those who DOES use this for class
Comment: Lynn Hunt is one of the most recognized authorities on this era, she was president of the American Historical Association and she writes pretty well also. So I agree with the other reviewer and have used this book for classes and have not hesitated to adopt it. A community college student majoring in psychology found it very informative, and in that setting as well as at a four-year university I have found the book is highly useful as a course text. The illustrations (woodcut porn, really) provide an instant lesson: the king can and was degraded as a political figure via sexual imagery. In other words, pornography can be political (Larry Flynt isn't a trailblazer, after all). This book will not help someone looking to understand the basics of what happened between 1789-94 but if you have a grasp of that and want to understand more about creating a nation of men as "equals" or "brothers" (no women need apply), then read this book. You might find yourself thinking about it long after reading it (which is when you might really find yourself appreciating it).
Rating: 4
Summary: Good cultural study of how the Revolution affected women
Comment: Please disregard the negative review. Hunt's text is fairly accessible. She describes how the great republican and liberal revolutionaries depoliticized women by emphasizing domesticity. Simply: women could not have political rights or privileges because their biology and psychology directed them toward the home and childrearing. Hunt argues from cultural products: plays, festival, and symbols that the revolutionaries invented to legitimize their ideas (lots of quaint images of home life.) She fails at many points to explain the impact of these images and how widely people could have been affected by them. Many of these products will be unfamiliar to many readers, especially those without knowledge of the literature of the period. Furthermore, I would not recommend the books as a general history of the French Revolution. Even Hunt assumes that you know about the "great story." It is a much better book after you have read several political and at least a few social histories of the revolution. Thereafter, Hunt's books is an excellent counterpoint to the notion that the revolution was liberating--it wasn't!
Rating: 1
Summary: Having trouble sleeping? We've found the answer!
Comment: WARNING: If you are studying the French Revolution check to see if this is a text. If it is, drop the course. The language is overly formal; the documents boring and only partially relevant; and the book layout confusing and annoying. And for the price tag? Very expensive for a sleeping pill.
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Title: The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolutions) by Roger Chartier, Steven L. Kaplan, Keith M. Baker ISBN: 0822309939 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 (A Centennial Book) by Victoria De Grazia ISBN: 0520074572 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community by Faye D. Ginsburg ISBN: 0520217357 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A New England Town: The First Hundred Years: Dedhan, Massachusetts, 1636-1736 by Kenneth A. Lockridge ISBN: 0393954595 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1985 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution by Joan B. Landes ISBN: 0801494818 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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