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- catalog abstract "In this extraordinarily rich book, Madelyn Gutwirth examines over one hundred prints and paintings, dozens of texts, and the work of a great many cultural critics in order to consider how gender politics were played out during a highly volatile era. Finding evidence of a crisis in gender relations during the eighteenth century, she traces its evolution in the politics of rococo art, demographic trends, plans for the control of prostitution, maternal nursing and wet-nursing practices, folklore, the salon, and in the theater of Diderot and the polemics of Rousseau. Gutwirth shows how a hostile gender ideology consigned women to a solely mothering role before the political revolution began, and how women who struggled to participate in the nascent First French Republic found themselves hobbled by the representational practices of the revolutionaries, especially their use of allegory. The artificiality and anachronism of the Revolution's representation of women were ratified by the Napoleonic Code. Once depicted as erotic goddesses by the rococo, then as goddesses of liberty (Marianne), the dominant figuration of women around 1800 would become the dying waif. As modern republics began their struggle toward legitimacy, women's posture within them had been reduced, by representation, to feeble marginality. Gutwirth combines perspectives from literature, history, sociology, demography, psychology, and art history and criticism in her delineation of this crisis.".
- catalog contributor b3557522.
- catalog coverage "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Women.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Gendered rococo as political provocation -- Infant eros and human infant -- Social woman : between nature and culture -- The war of the sexes : from the fall of Merteuil to the rise of Brutus -- Women's early revolution -- Goddesses and allegories -- The limits to women's action as empowerment, 1792-1795 -- The Maenad factor, or sex, politics, and murderousness -- Caritas and the Republic : imageries of the breast.".
- catalog description "In this extraordinarily rich book, Madelyn Gutwirth examines over one hundred prints and paintings, dozens of texts, and the work of a great many cultural critics in order to consider how gender politics were played out during a highly volatile era. Finding evidence of a crisis in gender relations during the eighteenth century, she traces its evolution in the politics of rococo art, demographic trends, plans for the control of prostitution, maternal nursing and wet-nursing practices, folklore, the salon, and in the theater of Diderot and the polemics of Rousseau. Gutwirth shows how a hostile gender ideology consigned women to a solely mothering role before the political revolution began, and how women who struggled to participate in the nascent First French Republic found themselves hobbled by the representational practices of the revolutionaries, especially their use of allegory. The artificiality and anachronism of the Revolution's representation of women were ratified by the Napoleonic Code. Once depicted as erotic goddesses by the rococo, then as goddesses of liberty (Marianne), the dominant figuration of women around 1800 would become the dying waif. As modern republics began their struggle toward legitimacy, women's posture within them had been reduced, by representation, to feeble marginality. Gutwirth combines perspectives from literature, history, sociology, demography, psychology, and art history and criticism in her delineation of this crisis.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-428) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 440 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Twilight of the goddesses.".
- catalog identifier "0813517877 :".
- catalog identifier "0813517990 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Twilight of the goddesses.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,".
- catalog relation "Twilight of the goddesses.".
- catalog spatial "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Women.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "944.04 20".
- catalog subject "DC158.8 .G88 1992".
- catalog subject "Sex discrimination France History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Women in art.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women in popular culture France History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Women's rights France History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Gendered rococo as political provocation -- Infant eros and human infant -- Social woman : between nature and culture -- The war of the sexes : from the fall of Merteuil to the rise of Brutus -- Women's early revolution -- Goddesses and allegories -- The limits to women's action as empowerment, 1792-1795 -- The Maenad factor, or sex, politics, and murderousness -- Caritas and the Republic : imageries of the breast.".
- catalog title "The twilight of the goddesses : women and representation in the French revolutionary era / Madelyn Gutwirth.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".