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  title info:
    title: Politics in the marketplace
    sub title: work, gender, and citizenship in revolutionary France
  name:
    name part: Jarvis, Katie (Katie L.)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Politics in the Marketplace integrates politics, economics and gender to ask how the Dames des Halles invented notions of citizenship through everyday trade during the French Revolution. As crucial food retailers, traditional representatives of the Third Estate and famed leaders of the march on Versailles, these Parisian market women held great revolutionary influence. By abolishing Old Regime privileges, the National Assembly threw centuries of commercial and social relationships into disarray. Parisians struggled to reconcile egalitarian social aspirations with free market principles as they remade the marketplace. While haggling over price controls, fair taxes and acceptable currency, the Dames and their clients negotiated tenuous economic and social contracts in tandem. In this environment, the Dames conceptualized a type of economic citizenship in which individuals' activities such as buying goods, selling food or paying taxes positioned them within the body politic and enabled them to make claims on the state. The Dames insisted that their work as merchants served society and demanded that the state pass favorable regulations, like allowing them to sell on public domain, in return. In addition, the Dames drew on their patriotic work as activists and their gendered work as republican mothers to compel the state to provide practical currency and assist indigent families. Thus, the Dames' notion of citizenship portrayed useful work, rather than gender, as the cornerstone of civic legitimacy. Consequently, this book challenges the interpretation that the Revolution launched an inherently masculine trajectory for citizenship and reveals how the revolutionaries crafted multiple definitions of citizenship in its embryonic stages.
  table of contents: Introduction : inventing citizenship in the revolutionary marketplace -- The Dames des Halles : economic lynchpins and the people personified -- Embodying sovereignty : the October days, political activism, and maternal work -- Occupying the marketplace : the battle over public space, particular interests, and the body politic -- Exacting change : money, market women, and the crumbling corporate world -- The cost of female citizenship : price controls and the gendering of democracy in revolutionary France -- Selling legitimacy : merchants, police, and the politics of popular subsistence -- Commercial licenses as political contracts : working out autonomy and economic citizenship -- Conclusion : fruits of labors : citizenship as social experience.
  note: Katie Jarvis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Halles centrales (Paris, France)
  subject:
    geographic: Paris (France)
    topic: History
    temporal: 1789-1799
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Women merchants
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Women merchants
    topic: Political activity
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Citizenship
    geographic: France
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    geographic: Paris (France)
    topic: Commerce
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  classification: DC194 .J37 2019
  classification: 330.94/04
  identifier: 9780190917111
  identifier: 0190917113
  identifier: 2018027020
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180809
    record change date: 20190718162655.0
    record identifier: in00004053263