Bøger af Mona Ozouf

Argues that French feminism lacks the rancour and resentment of its counterpart in America, and explains why this brand of feminism is uniquely French. This study uses the woman's portrait, traditionally a male genre, to portray ten French women of letters from the French Revolution onwards.

Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals; Ozouf shows us that they were much more than bizarre marginalia to the revolutionary process.