Suzanne Desan
Biographic Data
| ID | 374005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Desan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Desan |
| SIGNATURE | DESAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Théroigne de Méricourt, Gender, and International Politics in Revolutionary Europe
Gender, Radicalization, and the October Days
In 1789 the forms and legitimacy of revolutionary crowd activism emerged out of Old Regime practices, but the pivotal role of gender dynamics in this radicalizing process has not yet been fully understood. This article rethinks the October Days by examining the occupation of the National Assembly and making three central claims. First, female marchers fused revolutionary political knowledge with older forms of bodily and spatial politics. Second,…
Recent Historiography on the French Revolution and Gender
This piece reviews recent work on women, gender, and masculinity during the French revolutionary era. The older argument that women were enclosed in a private sphere and excluded from politics has given way to a more nuanced and wide-ranging exploration of diverse groups of women, including prostitutes, Parisian market women, cross-dressed female soldiers, female school-teachers, and enslaved women seeking emancipation through marrying soldiers, …
Le genre des émotions
Les émotions sont souvent considérées comme un puissant marqueur de genre, jouant un rôle central dans les délimitations culturelles et sociales du masculin et du féminin, les hommes étant considérés comme plus rationnels et maîtrisant mieux leurs émotions que les femmes. Ce stéréotype mérite d’être dépassé en le confrontant à des représentations et à des pratiques bien plus complexes, en refusant d’opposer raison et émotion, en dénaturalisant le…
Jennifer L. Palmer. Intimate Bonds
In 1755, after twenty-six years in Saint-Domingue, slave owner Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau returned to France with five mixed-race teenagers in tow. In La Rochelle, he and his new white wife raised his illegitimate offspring in their household. He gave them generous financial gifts and even bestowed six slaves on one of his sons for his coffee plantation back in the Caribbean. Yet in France, Fleuriau never acknowledged paternity of his Saint-Domingue …
Internationalizing the French Revolution
“All history is contemporary history,” observed Benedetto Croce. Work on the French Revolution has often proven his insight.* In today’s globalizing climate, it is worth examining French revolutionary historians’ uneven embrace of the current historiographic trend toward transnational approaches. On one hand, scholarship has been comparatively slow to take this turn for several reasons, notably the persistent belief in the centrality of the natio…
Transatlantic Spaces of Revolution
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/157006509X436897 Journal of Early Modern History 12 (2008) 467-505 brill.nl/jemh Transatlantic Spaces of Revolution: Th e French Revolution, Sciotomanie , and American Lands * Suzanne Desan University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract Th is paper explores an unlikely incident in order to probe how Atlantic culture, commerce, and colonization infl uenced French revolutionary politics. In 1789-90, Ameri…
Qu'est-ce qui fait un père? Illégitimité et paternité de l'an II au Code civil
sÀ l'automne 1793, la Convention a essayé d'accorder aux enfants illégitimes, lorsqu'ils étaient reconnus par leurs parents, des droits successoraux égaux àceux des enfants légitimes. Cet article explore le combat judiciaire sur cette politique familiale controversée et examine comment la négociation des pratiques sociales était imbriquée dans la convalescence politique consécutive àla Terreur. Les enfants naturels avaient du mal àfaire valoir le…
What's after Political Culture? Recent French Revolutionary Historiography
Book Review| February 01 2000 What's after Political Culture? Recent French Revolutionary Historiography Suzanne Desan Suzanne Desan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (1): 163–196. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-1-163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permis…
Reconstituting the social after the terror
RECONSTITUTING THE SOCIAL AFTER THE TERROR: FAMILY, PROPERTY AND THE LAW IN POPULAR POLITICS Get access Suzanne Desan Suzanne Desan University of Wisconsin — Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 164, Issue 1, August 1999, Pages 81–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/164.1.81 Published: 01 August 1999
War between Brothers and Sisters
The Rites of Labor
Revolutionary Justice in Paris, 1789-1790
Women and Medicine in the French Enlightenment
Private Lives and Public Affairs
Fictions of the French Revolution
Reclaiming the Sacred
Reclaiming the Sacred. Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France
The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution
The Role of Women in Religious Riots During the French Revolution
AS THE PARADE FOR THE FESTIVAL of the Supreme Being was forming in Auxerre on 20 prairial an II (30 June 1794), one soldier turned to an old woman looking on and asked her why she wasn't joining in the festival. She responded, Ce n'est pas le tien que j'adore; il est trop jeune; c'est le vieux. (It is not your god that I adore. He is too young. It is the old one.)' Behind the simple statement of this old Auxerroise lay a wealth of unspoken belief…
Redefining Revolutionary Liberty
Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France
The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre
What's after Political Culture? Recent French Revolutionary Historiography
Book Review| February 01 2000 What's after Political Culture? Recent French Revolutionary Historiography Suzanne Desan Suzanne Desan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (1): 163–196. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-1-163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permis…
War between Brothers and Sisters
Redefining Revolutionary Liberty
Reconstituting the social after the terror
RECONSTITUTING THE SOCIAL AFTER THE TERROR: FAMILY, PROPERTY AND THE LAW IN POPULAR POLITICS Get access Suzanne Desan Suzanne Desan University of Wisconsin — Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 164, Issue 1, August 1999, Pages 81–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/164.1.81 Published: 01 August 1999
Recent Historiography on the French Revolution and Gender
This piece reviews recent work on women, gender, and masculinity during the French revolutionary era. The older argument that women were enclosed in a private sphere and excluded from politics has given way to a more nuanced and wide-ranging exploration of diverse groups of women, including prostitutes, Parisian market women, cross-dressed female soldiers, female school-teachers, and enslaved women seeking emancipation through marrying soldiers, …
Transatlantic Spaces of Revolution
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/157006509X436897 Journal of Early Modern History 12 (2008) 467-505 brill.nl/jemh Transatlantic Spaces of Revolution: Th e French Revolution, Sciotomanie , and American Lands * Suzanne Desan University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract Th is paper explores an unlikely incident in order to probe how Atlantic culture, commerce, and colonization infl uenced French revolutionary politics. In 1789-90, Ameri…
Qu'est-ce qui fait un père? Illégitimité et paternité de l'an II au Code civil
sÀ l'automne 1793, la Convention a essayé d'accorder aux enfants illégitimes, lorsqu'ils étaient reconnus par leurs parents, des droits successoraux égaux àceux des enfants légitimes. Cet article explore le combat judiciaire sur cette politique familiale controversée et examine comment la négociation des pratiques sociales était imbriquée dans la convalescence politique consécutive àla Terreur. Les enfants naturels avaient du mal àfaire valoir le…
Théroigne de Méricourt, Gender, and International Politics in Revolutionary Europe
Gender, Radicalization, and the October Days
In 1789 the forms and legitimacy of revolutionary crowd activism emerged out of Old Regime practices, but the pivotal role of gender dynamics in this radicalizing process has not yet been fully understood. This article rethinks the October Days by examining the occupation of the National Assembly and making three central claims. First, female marchers fused revolutionary political knowledge with older forms of bodily and spatial politics. Second,…
Internationalizing the French Revolution
“All history is contemporary history,” observed Benedetto Croce. Work on the French Revolution has often proven his insight.* In today’s globalizing climate, it is worth examining French revolutionary historians’ uneven embrace of the current historiographic trend toward transnational approaches. On one hand, scholarship has been comparatively slow to take this turn for several reasons, notably the persistent belief in the centrality of the natio…
The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre
Redefining Revolutionary Liberty
Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France
The Role of Women in Religious Riots During the French Revolution
AS THE PARADE FOR THE FESTIVAL of the Supreme Being was forming in Auxerre on 20 prairial an II (30 June 1794), one soldier turned to an old woman looking on and asked her why she wasn't joining in the festival. She responded, Ce n'est pas le tien que j'adore; il est trop jeune; c'est le vieux. (It is not your god that I adore. He is too young. It is the old one.)' Behind the simple statement of this old Auxerroise lay a wealth of unspoken belief…
The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution
Reclaiming the Sacred. Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France
Reclaiming the Sacred
Fictions of the French Revolution
Private Lives and Public Affairs
Revolutionary Justice in Paris, 1789-1790
Women and Medicine in the French Enlightenment
The Rites of Labor
War between Brothers and Sisters
Reconstituting the social after the terror
RECONSTITUTING THE SOCIAL AFTER THE TERROR: FAMILY, PROPERTY AND THE LAW IN POPULAR POLITICS Get access Suzanne Desan Suzanne Desan University of Wisconsin — Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 164, Issue 1, August 1999, Pages 81–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/164.1.81 Published: 01 August 1999
What's after Political Culture? Recent French Revolutionary Historiography
Book Review| February 01 2000 What's after Political Culture? Recent French Revolutionary Historiography Suzanne Desan Suzanne Desan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (1): 163–196. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-1-163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permis…
Qu'est-ce qui fait un père? Illégitimité et paternité de l'an II au Code civil
sÀ l'automne 1793, la Convention a essayé d'accorder aux enfants illégitimes, lorsqu'ils étaient reconnus par leurs parents, des droits successoraux égaux àceux des enfants légitimes. Cet article explore le combat judiciaire sur cette politique familiale controversée et examine comment la négociation des pratiques sociales était imbriquée dans la convalescence politique consécutive àla Terreur. Les enfants naturels avaient du mal àfaire valoir le…
Transatlantic Spaces of Revolution
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/157006509X436897 Journal of Early Modern History 12 (2008) 467-505 brill.nl/jemh Transatlantic Spaces of Revolution: Th e French Revolution, Sciotomanie , and American Lands * Suzanne Desan University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract Th is paper explores an unlikely incident in order to probe how Atlantic culture, commerce, and colonization infl uenced French revolutionary politics. In 1789-90, Ameri…
Internationalizing the French Revolution
“All history is contemporary history,” observed Benedetto Croce. Work on the French Revolution has often proven his insight.* In today’s globalizing climate, it is worth examining French revolutionary historians’ uneven embrace of the current historiographic trend toward transnational approaches. On one hand, scholarship has been comparatively slow to take this turn for several reasons, notably the persistent belief in the centrality of the natio…
Jennifer L. Palmer. Intimate Bonds
In 1755, after twenty-six years in Saint-Domingue, slave owner Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau returned to France with five mixed-race teenagers in tow. In La Rochelle, he and his new white wife raised his illegitimate offspring in their household. He gave them generous financial gifts and even bestowed six slaves on one of his sons for his coffee plantation back in the Caribbean. Yet in France, Fleuriau never acknowledged paternity of his Saint-Domingue …
Le genre des émotions
Les émotions sont souvent considérées comme un puissant marqueur de genre, jouant un rôle central dans les délimitations culturelles et sociales du masculin et du féminin, les hommes étant considérés comme plus rationnels et maîtrisant mieux leurs émotions que les femmes. Ce stéréotype mérite d’être dépassé en le confrontant à des représentations et à des pratiques bien plus complexes, en refusant d’opposer raison et émotion, en dénaturalisant le…
Recent Historiography on the French Revolution and Gender
This piece reviews recent work on women, gender, and masculinity during the French revolutionary era. The older argument that women were enclosed in a private sphere and excluded from politics has given way to a more nuanced and wide-ranging exploration of diverse groups of women, including prostitutes, Parisian market women, cross-dressed female soldiers, female school-teachers, and enslaved women seeking emancipation through marrying soldiers, …
Théroigne de Méricourt, Gender, and International Politics in Revolutionary Europe
Gender, Radicalization, and the October Days
In 1789 the forms and legitimacy of revolutionary crowd activism emerged out of Old Regime practices, but the pivotal role of gender dynamics in this radicalizing process has not yet been fully understood. This article rethinks the October Days by examining the occupation of the National Assembly and making three central claims. First, female marchers fused revolutionary political knowledge with older forms of bodily and spatial politics. Second,…
Political science (20 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (18 works) · European Political History Analysis (16 works) · History (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Art (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)