Anatomy of a massacre: Gender, power, and punishment in revolutionary Paris

Mary Bosworth

doi:10.1177/10778010122183766

Anatomy of a massacre: Gender, power, and punishment in revolutionary Paris

Mary Bosworth

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1101-1121
Number of pages	21
Journal	Violence Against Women
Volume	7
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10778010122183766
Publication status	Published - Oct 2001
Externally published	Yes

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