Tracey Rizzo

Revolutionaries traces the gendered experiences of revolution from the 18th century Atlantic Revolutions through the late 20th century. With an explanatory framework that focuses on the evolution of revolutionary ‘scripts,’ Revolutionaries synthesizes the latest micro-historical scholarship on gender and revolution into a survey of two centuries of world history. Because revolutionaries are the most self-aware of historical actors, they adapted the phrases, such as ‘all men are created equal’ and followed the phases – mobilization through victory and consolidation – across one revolution after another. For example, when Nicaraguans commemorated the bicentennial of the French Revolution in 1989--and their Revolution--by paying homage to “Liberty Leading the People” on a postage stamp, they precisely evoked this modern global revolutionary ‘script,’ one they had improved upon. While scholars have identified these phrases and stages, and compared revolutions across time and space, few have focused on gender. Although patriarchy was renovated over and over, when ‘great men’ consolidated power, revolutionaries also rose up again and again, with new tools, determined to widen political and economic rights for women and other excluded groups. Revolutionaries interrogates the great man script that leaves masculinity underexplored while sharing the stories of extraordinary and ordinary women and men and their gendered dreams. With vignettes, different global examples for each theme, and illustrations and photographs, this is the perfect guide for anyone wanting to find out about the gendered implications of revolutions.

Revolutionaries traces the gendered experiences of revolution from the 18th century Atlantic Revolutions through the late 20th century. With an explanatory framework that focuses on the evolution of revolutionary ‘scripts,’ Revolutionaries synthesizes the latest micro-historical scholarship on gender and revolution into a survey of two centuries of world history. Because revolutionaries are the most self-aware of historical actors, they adapted the phrases, such as ‘all men are created equal’ and followed the phases – mobilization through victory and consolidation – across one revolution after another. For example, when Nicaraguans commemorated the bicentennial of the French Revolution in 1989--and their Revolution--by paying homage to “Liberty Leading the People” on a postage stamp, they precisely evoked this modern global revolutionary ‘script,’ one they had improved upon. While scholars have identified these phrases and stages, and compared revolutions across time and space, few have focused on gender. Although patriarchy was renovated over and over, when ‘great men’ consolidated power, revolutionaries also rose up again and again, with new tools, determined to widen political and economic rights for women and other excluded groups. Revolutionaries interrogates the great man script that leaves masculinity underexplored while sharing the stories of extraordinary and ordinary women and men and their gendered dreams. With vignettes, different global examples for each theme, and illustrations and photographs, this is the perfect guide for anyone wanting to find out about the gendered implications of revolutions.

Intimate Empires: Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World offers an interpretive synthesis of recent scholarship on intersections of gender, race, and empire from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It untangles the embodied experiences and representations of people all over the world in the era of Europe's global dominance. Studies of intimate experiences complicate narratives of imperialism that have traditionally revolved around political and economic developments and thus obscured the ways in which ordinary people ignored, survived, co-opted, or even subverted imperialists and their institutions. The book discusses the development and coproduction of metropolitan and colonial identities alike, incorporating art, children's literature, cookbooks, and sport in addition to migration, missionary work, and legal trials. Organized thematically, each of the six chapters moves from the mid-eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries to unfold an aspect of identity.