Divided Houses
Caroline Ford · 2005
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About the book
"In Divided Houses, Caroline Ford examines how the so-called feminization of religion in France from the French Revolution to the First World War contributed to the formation of a distinctive secular (laic) republican political culture in France. She also reveals the effect of women's close association with religion on their civil and social status, which gave rise in France to heated debates about the limits of female agency, women's property rights, and women's role in the family and in society. She argues that religious women were often far more than the passive instruments of a male ecclesiastical hierarchy. In showing that these women could dispose of their bodies, souls, and properties in ways that were unimaginable to their secular counterparts, Ford's book obliges one to rethink the categories of tradition and modernity that have structured most thinking about this subject."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN
- 9780801443671
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