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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book was completely eye-opening on how women were portrayed during the brief civil war between Paris and Versailles in 1871. Women wanted to help their husbands, sons, etc with the fighting and so did everything that they could to help - some became caretakers (primitive nurses), some brought food and drink to soldiers on the front lines, and some even fought alongside the men. The gender lines that were crossed led to the anti-Commune and foreign journalists to paint them as hags and monsters. They did this because they were afraid that these "Amazons, Furies, etc" could stand up for themselves and kill men because they wanted equal rights. This short read (230 pages) illustrates the life and turmoil that these Parisian women had to go through for freedom. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In this vividly written and amply illustrated book, Gay L. Gullickson analyzes the representations of women who were part of the insurrection known as the Paris Commune. The uprising and its bloody suppression by the French army is still one of the most hotly debated episodes in modern history. Especially controversial was the role played by women, whose prominent place among the Communards shocked many commentators and spawned the legend of the pétroleuses, women who were accused of burning the city during the battle that ended the Commune. In the midst of the turmoil that shook Paris, the media distinguished women for their cruelty and rage. The Paris-Journal, for example, raved: "Madness seems to possess them; one sees them, their hair down like furies, throwing boiling oil, furniture, paving stones, on the soldiers." Gullickson explores the significance of the images created by journalists, memoirists, and political commentators, and elaborated by latter-day historians and political thinkers. The pétroleuse is the most notorious figure to emerge from the Commune, but the literature depicts the Communardes in other guises, too: the innocent victim, the scandalous orator, the Amazon warrior, and the ministering angel, among others. Gullickson argues that these caricatures played an important role in conveying and evoking moral condemnation of the Commune. More important, they reveal the gender conceptualizations that structured, limited, and assigned meaning to women as political actors for the balance of the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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