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- Title
Gender, Radicalization, and the October Days: Occupying the National Assembly.
- Authors
DESAN, SUZANNE
- Abstract
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, women's and men's practices operated in tandem. The growing presence of armed, working men deepened the journée's impact on deputies and king. Third, gendered behavior and expectations enabled Parisians to forge revolutionary claims within Old Regime frameworks, including rioting for subsistence and building on and beyond carnivalesque acts of inversion. In essence, the gender dynamics and political context of the event allowed a largely female crowd to smuggle the expansion of popular sovereignty in through the back door.
- Subjects
RADICALISM; FRENCH history; FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799; FRENCH politics &; government; POPULARITY
- Publication
French Historical Studies, 2020, Vol 43, Issue 3, p359
- ISSN
0016-1071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00161071-8278435