Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Women and the Formation of Revolutionary Ideology -- 2. Representing the Body Politic: The Paradox of Gender in the Graphic Politics of the French Revolution -- 3. "Love and Patriotism": Gender and Politics in the Life and Work of Louvet de Couvrai -- 4. Incorruptible Milk: Breast-feeding and the French Revolution -- Part II: The Other Revolution: Women as Actors in the Revolutionary Period -- 5. Women and Militant Citizenship in Revolutionary Paris -- 6. "A Woman Who Has Only Paradoxes to Offer": Olympe de Gouges Claims Rights for Women -- 7. Outspoken Women and the Rightful Daughter of the Revolution: Madame de Staël's Considérations sur la Révolution Française -- Part III: Constructing the New Gender System in Postrevolutionary Culture -- 8. Triste Amérique: Atala and the Postrevolutionary Construction of Woman -- 9. Being René, Buying Atala: Alienated Subjects and Decorative Objects in Postrevolutionary France -- 10. Exotic Femininity and the Rights of Man: Paul et Virginie and Atala, or the Revolution in Stasis -- 11. The Engulfed Beloved: Representations of Dead and Dying Women in the Art and Literature of the Revolutionary Era -- Part IV: The Birth of Modern Feminism in the Revolution and Its Aftermath -- 12. "Equality" and "Difference" in Historical Perspective: A Comparative Examination of the Feminisms of French Revolutionaries and Utopian Socialists -- 13. English Women Writers and the French Revolution -- 14. Flora Tristan: Rebel Daughter of the Revolution -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.