Surmounting the barricades : women in the Paris Commune /

Surmounting the barricades : women in the Paris Commune /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Eichner, Carolyn Jeanne, 1961-
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject:	Women revolutionaries -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century. Women revolutionaries. Paris (France) -- History -- Commune, 1871. France -- Paris. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142478

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ISBN:	0253111102 9780253111104 9780253344427 0253344425 9780253217059 0253217059 1282071416 9781282071414
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic resource (access conditions). Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France's revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection. Examining the period from the early 1860s through that century's end, Eichner investigates how radical women developed critiques of gender, class, and religious hierarchies in the immediate pre-Commune era, how these ideologies emerged as a plurality of feminist socialisms within the revolution, and how these varied politics subsequently affected the fin-de-
Other form:	Print version: Eichner, Carolyn Jeanne, 1961- Surmounting the barricades. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004 0253344425 0253217059

Table of Contents:

Part I. Before
1. The Actors and the Action
2. Politics and Ideas: Staging the Struggle
Part II. During
3. Elisabeth Dmitrieff and the Union des femmes: Revolutionizing Women's Labor
4. André Léo and the Subversion of Gender: The Battle over Women's Place
5. Paule Mink and the Clubistes: Anti-Clericalism and Popular Revolution
Part III. After
6. Dmitrieff and Léo in the Aftermath: Radical Denouement
7. Mink in the Aftermath: The Red Flag and the Future.