New Book on Women in European Revolutions

I am responding to your fascinating article with some comments that you might find relevant. I did my Ph.D. work from 1968-73 at Princeton under Robert Darnton, Lawrence Stone (no relation!), David Bien, Arno Mayer, et al. I then served as instructor in history at Princeton during the period 1972-75, before leaving for the University of Houston.

I write, in particular, because I have already suggested that Bloomsbury Academic, which is about to publish my 7th and latest book, Women in the Great European Revolutions: Gender, Culture, Class, and the State, send PAW a copy. My latest study is a grand synthesis that delves into the status, mentalities, and destinies of women — from tsarinas and queens to workers and peasants — who lived during Europe’s three classic revolutions: the English “Puritan Revolution” of 1640-60, the 1789 French Revolution, and the 1917 Russian Revolution — or, better yet, Revolutions. The book also endeavors to update the huge and important literature that deals with the theorizing of gender, sexuality, and patriarchy in the specific historical contexts of such transformative sociopolitical upheavals, in and beyond Europe.

I hope that PAW’s editors and your many readers will find these comments of some interest. The book is due to appear, here and internationally, over the next two weeks.