In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the eighteenth century. She focuses on France, contrasting the role and representation of... Publisher: Cornell University Press Author(s): Joan B. Landes Number of pages: 296 Publication date: 1988 Dimensions: 216 x 142 x 18 Cover type: Paperback / softback