By examining the relationship among the Dames’ economic interests, activism, and literary image, this dissertation creates new pathways in the sociocultural methodology of history. I also study how other actors deployed the Dames’ image for their own political ends, and probes the genre poissard, whose evolving literary representations of the Dames informed their cultural construction. I inquire how marketplace reform affected their collective concerns. In order to highlight the complexity of female political practice, I analyze the economic, ritual, and gendered elements of the Dames’ activism. This project examines the political activism and cultural representation of Parisian merchants called the Dames des Halles during the French Revolution. Politics in the Marketplace: The Popular Activism and Cultural Representation of the Dames des Halles during the French Revolution
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