Artikel
Women, salons, and the state in the aftermath of the French Revolution
Verfasst von:
Kale, Steven D.
in:
Bloomington:
2002
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54 - 80 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Kale, Steven D. |
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| Jahr: | 2002 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Historians have genrally accepted the argument that the salon culture through which women participated in the public sphere of eighteenth-century France faded in the 1780s, foreshadowing and complementing the general exclusion of women form politics by the French Revolution. This article presents evidence that salon sociability came back to life in the aftermath of the French Revolution, giving upper-class women renewed access to the public sphere as part of the partial reconstruction of aristocratic power. Napoleon encouraged this revivial as part of a strategy winning the support of tradtional elites, but he deplored powerful women and struggled to contain "salonnières" by reducing them to hostesses. He supported the development of ministerial salons centered on male notables and exiled Madame de Stael, france's most prominent salonnière, in order to silence political dissent in high society. Salons recovered significantly with the liberalization of the public sphere during the Restoration and the July Monarchy, along with the influence of salonnieres, who presiede over a new mondanite (society life) linked closely with the political sociability of elites, and supported by an enduring nostalgia for the elegant society of the past. nevertheless, the connection between monanite and politics slowly weakende, and upper-class women saw their informal political role diminished due to the rise of modern institutions designed to organize the political life of a wideining middle-class electorate. the salon's decreasing significance within the public sphere occurred after the consolidation of modern gender norms and the juridical inscription of women's second-class status | |
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