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- Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire
- Reviews
- Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Performance, Revolution, and the Military–Theatrical Complex
- Chapter 1 From tragédie nationale to pièce militaire: Pierre-Laurent de Belloy’s Le Siège de Calais
- Chapter 2 Military Masculinities, Dramaturgical Manipulation, and the Desertion Play
- Chapter 3 Performing on the Periphery: Military–Theatrical Experiences at the Théâtre de la Marine (Brest) and the Comédie du Cap (Cap-Français)
- Chapter 4 Total Theater for Total War: Military Dramas and Performances of the French Revolution
- Chapter 5 Femmes soldats and Militarized Domesticity: Women at War in French Revolutionary Theater
- Conclusion The Military–Theatrical Complex of Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - Femmes soldats and Militarized Domesticity: Women at War in French Revolutionary Theater
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
- Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire
- Reviews
- Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Performance, Revolution, and the Military–Theatrical Complex
- Chapter 1 From tragédie nationale to pièce militaire: Pierre-Laurent de Belloy’s Le Siège de Calais
- Chapter 2 Military Masculinities, Dramaturgical Manipulation, and the Desertion Play
- Chapter 3 Performing on the Periphery: Military–Theatrical Experiences at the Théâtre de la Marine (Brest) and the Comédie du Cap (Cap-Français)
- Chapter 4 Total Theater for Total War: Military Dramas and Performances of the French Revolution
- Chapter 5 Femmes soldats and Militarized Domesticity: Women at War in French Revolutionary Theater
- Conclusion The Military–Theatrical Complex of Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter shifts from male soldiers and issues of masculinity to the role of women in military plays. Described are the multiple and overlapping roles of women in the military–theatrical endeavor, which presents an alternative to traditional gestures such as contrasting active (male) citizenship with passive (female) domesticity. This chapter continues an examination of totalizing processes in Revolutionary-era theatricalized conflict by including French citoyennes in the military–theatrical endeavor. Interrogated here are three main categories for women and war in 1790s drama: female soldier (femmes-soldats; filles-soldats) plays, works about vivandières and cantinières (women providing service roles to combat units), and plays about the Revolution’s “militarized domestic sphere,” a wartime home front where armed conflict created specific forms of violent domesticity. With attention to military plays penned by women about their fellow citoyennes, as well as to recent feminist scholarship on women and war, this chapter explores a dramaturgical practice whereby women sought to reimagine citizenship after efforts to assert their rights in the political sphere ran asunder.
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