Domesticity and political participation: at home with the Jacobin women

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buir.contributor.authorBergès, Sandrine
buir.contributor.orcidBergès, Sandrine|0000-0001-6904-3998
dc.citation.epage223en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage213en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber76en_US
dc.contributor.authorBergès, Sandrine
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-15T12:49:43Z
dc.date.available2023-02-15T12:49:43Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-26
dc.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_US
dc.description.abstractThe exclusion of women from political participation and the separation of private and public spheres seem anchored in human history to such an extent that we may think they are necessary. I offer an analysis of a philosophical moment in history, the early years of the French Revolution, where politics and domesticity were not incompatible. I show how this enabled women to participate in politics from within their homes, at the same time fulfilling their duties as wives and mothers. The republican home, on this interpretation, was a place of power and virtue, a merging of the public and the private sphere where political ideals and reforms could be born and nurtured. This conception of the home was derived in great part from a reading of Rousseau’s writings on motherhood. As the influence of French revolutionary women became more visible, they were severely repressed. The fact that they could not hold on to a position of power that derived naturally from the ideals they and others defended, I will suggest, was caused both by the fact that the framework used to allow women political power was insecure, and by the gradual replacement of republican ideals by liberal ones.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/10659129221079865en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1938-274X
dc.identifier.issn1065-9129
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/111363
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10659129221079865en_US
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0 DEED (Attribution 4.0 International)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source.titlePolitical Research Quarterlyen_US
dc.subjectPolitical participationen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectDomesticityen_US
dc.subjectPublic and private sphereen_US
dc.subjectFrench revolutionen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.titleDomesticity and political participation: at home with the Jacobin womenen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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