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The Body and the French Revolution - Sex, Class and Political Culture (Hardcover)
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The Body and the French Revolution - Sex, Class and Political Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Revolution
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This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed
in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes
to the event. It was not simply a series of events with worldwide
repercussions, but also represented the foundation of the
middle-class domination of social, cultural and political space,
which survives today and is the site of major crises of public
culture. One such site is the body. In spite of its prominence in
consumer culture as an object of adornment and beautification, the
human body retains none of its historic dignity and authority. The
argument of this book is that the French Revolution played a
crucial part in this diminution of the body. It traces
revolutionary models of behaviour around the body and public life,
and explains how such myths as the division between public and
private, male and female worlds, and such masculine values as
'objectivity' were an integral part of the new public world created
by the revolutionary middle class.
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