Politics in the marketplace : work, gender, and citizenship in revolutionary France /
"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...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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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.