In 1791, the French femme de lettres Olympe de Gouges wrote that
'as women have the right to take their places on the scaffold, they
must also have the right to take their seats in government'. This
book explores the issues of female emancipation through the history
of female execution, from the burning of Joan of Arc in 1431 to the
events of the French revolution.
Concentrating on individual victims, the author addresses the
sexual attitudes and prejudices encountered by women condemned to
death. She examines the horrific treatment of those denounced as
witches and reveals the gruesome reality of death by hanging,
burning or the guillotine. In an attempt to uncover the historical
truth behind such figures as Joan of Arc, Anne Boleyn, Manon Roland
and Charlotte Corday, she goes beyond biography to consider their
deaths in symbolic terms. She also considers writers such as Genet,
Yourcenar and Brecht and their treatment of the tragic, sacrificial
and erotic aspects of female execution.
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