Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture
by Mita Choudhury
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"Representations of convents and nuns took on power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers, religious pamphleteers, and men of letters repeatedly asked, "Who should control the female convent and women religious?" These sources chronicled the conflicts between nuns and the male clergy, among nuns themselves, and between nuns and their families, conflicts that were presented to the public in the context of potent issues such as despotism, citizenship, female education, and sexuality."--BOOK JACKET.
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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture
June 2004, Cornell University Press
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0801441102 9780801441103
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"AT THE ONSET OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, THE FRENCH READING public was inundated by anticlerical pamphlets, many of which called for the abolition of convents and monasteries."
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