Alternate Currents in Women’s Republicanism During the French Revolution

ABSTRACT

In this article I consider alternate but often complementary models for women’s republicanism from those discussed by Sandrine Bergès. In particular, I make use of Bergès’s insights about extending philosophical inquiry beyond traditional texts to analyse how militant political action was both informed by and informed the creation of philosophical texts, and consider the possibility of bringing direct action into the realm of philosophical investigation.

KEYWORDS:

• republicanism
• feminism
• French Revolution
• activism
• militancy
• methodology

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Notes

1 For an illuminating application of Thompson’s framework to the French case, though less focused on the Revolution than I am, see Tilly [1971].