The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern by Carla Hesse

The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern

Carla Hesse

256 pages first pub 2001 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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The French Revolution created a new cultural world that freed women from the constraints of corporate privilege, aristocratic salons, and patriarchal censorship, even though it failed to grant them legal equality. Women burst into print in unprece...

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