Visualizing the nation : gender, representation, and revolution in eighteenth-century France by Landes, Joan B., 1946- instant download

Visualizing the nation : gender, representation, and revolution in eighteenth-century France by Landes, Joan B., 1946- instant download

xiii, 254 pages : 24 cm, \"Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of the dangers of feminine influence and the seductions of visual imagery. The use of caricatures and allegories contributed to the destruction of the masculinized images of hierarchic absolutism and to forging new roles for men and women in both the intimate and public arenas. Landes tells the story of how the depiction of the nation as a desirable female body worked to eroticize patriotism and to bind male subjects to the nation-state. Despite their political subordination, women too were invited to identify with the project of nationalism.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index, Image as argument in revolutionary political culture -- Representing the body politic -- Embodiments of female virtue -- Possessing La Patrie: nationalism and sexuality in revolutionary culture