Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France

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

• | Author: Katie Jarvis
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 17, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0190917113
• | ISBN-13: 9780190917111