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Article: The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2004
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The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern. By Carla Hesse. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 233. $22.95.)
In denying women civic and political equality, did the French Revolution also make it more difficult for them to participate in social and intellectual life? In this eloquent study of women writers, Carla Hesse demonstrates that French women were remarkably successful in overcoming the barriers that had been erected to limit their access to the public world. Arguing against those who have depicted the emergence of modern civil society as inherently masculine, Hesse shows that women published more during the Revolutionary ...