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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Les Marseillaises: Women and political change during the French Revolution, 1789--1794 Abstract: My work builds upon the theoretical examination of how revolutionary politics permeated both the public and the private sphere and the empirical study of how women responded to and influenced revolutionary change. In examining how women in Marseille navigated the spaces between public and private, political and domestic, it is possible to perceive how women contributed to political change and used the new political institutions not only for their personal welfare, but also as a means of exercising power within society. The question I propose is whether women, denied the vote by the Constitution of 1791, were active participants in political change despite their classification as passive citizens. I argue that women, from the very beginning of the Revolution, influenced politics throughout France in their participation in the revolutionary institutions and, like men, made the mental shift from subject to citizen, using their new role to pursue those rights they believed citizenship provided. The theoretical work of Birte Simm (2000) shapes my analysis of the developing concepts and practices of citizenship, as I examine women's citizenship as an identity, a practice and a legal status during the Revolution. In examining how women conceived of and practiced citizenship in Marseille during the Revolution, my research explores the degrees of political power available to the disenfranchised in society, and has ramifications that potentially inform not only gendered spaces of political relations but those of class and race as well. |
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