Article: Only Paradoxes ot Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man.

Joan B. Landes, Pennsylvania State University

No more dramatic case exists of women's paradoxical relationship to modern concepts of citizenship than that of France, which first established universal (male) citizenship and abolished racial barriers in the early years of the French Revolution. In contrast, women only received the right to vote at the end of World War II. Yet, calls for women's suffrage surfaced, and were repulsed, in the revolutions of 1789 and 1848 as well as during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Against the failures of French republicanism, Joan Wallach Scott examines key moments in the history of French feminism. She compares ...

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