Reason's Muse: Sexual Difference and the Birth of Democracy by Geneviève Fraisse
Reason's Muse: Sexual Difference and the Birth of Democracy

Geneviève Fraisse

Reason's Muse: Sexual Difference and the Birth of Democracy

Women in Culture and Society

Geneviève Fraisse with Jane Marie Todd (Translator)

226 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The French Revolution proclaimed the equality of all human beings, yet women remained less than equal in the new society. The exclusion of women at the birth of modern democracy required considerable justification, and by tracing the course of thi...

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