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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency
within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France.
Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material,
Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers,
religious pamphleteers, and men of letters repeatedly asked, "Who
should control the female convent and women religious?" These
sources chronicled the conflicts between nuns and the male clergy,
among nuns themselves, and between nuns and their families,
conflicts that were presented to the public in the context of
potent issues such as despotism, citizenship, female education, and
sexuality.The cloister operated as a symbol of despotism, the
equivalent of the Sultan's seraglio or the King's Bastille. Before
1770, lawyers and magistrates praised nuns as the personification
of virtuous Christian women, often victims vulnerable to those who
would use them to further their own political ends. After 1770, men
of letters evaluated nuns according to more secular norms, and
concluded that the convent had no purpose in society, except as a
reminder of the problems inherent in the Old Regime. Choudhury
elaborates on how nuns were not always passive entities, mere
objects to be shaped by the political needs of others. But because
they relied on men in order to make their voices heard, the place
of women religious in the public sphere was a complex one based on
negotiations between female action and male subjectivity. During
the French Revolution, whatever support they had enjoyed was lost
as republicans and moderates began to see nuns as potentially
disruptive to the social order, family life, and revolutionary
values.
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