TY - JOUR
T1 - Anatomy of a massacre
T2 - Gender, power, and punishment in revolutionary Paris
AU - Bosworth, Mary
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2001/10
Y1 - 2001/10
N2 - This article describes the massacre of 35 women in the Paris Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in September 1792. The killing of the women in the city's largest prison-hospital complex for women was a unique event in the French Revolution's history because it was the only all-female institution targeted during the September Massacres. Using archival documents, the author explores what the violence against women in Salpêtrière suggests about gender and punishment at the dawn of modernity.
AB - This article describes the massacre of 35 women in the Paris Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in September 1792. The killing of the women in the city's largest prison-hospital complex for women was a unique event in the French Revolution's history because it was the only all-female institution targeted during the September Massacres. Using archival documents, the author explores what the violence against women in Salpêtrière suggests about gender and punishment at the dawn of modernity.
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U2 - 10.1177/10778010122183766
DO - 10.1177/10778010122183766
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035617591
SN - 1077-8012
VL - 7
SP - 1101
EP - 1121
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 10
ER -