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Writing Sexual Difference

This chapter presents other authors who used medicine to puzzle out the new political and social realities created by the French Revolution. It demonstrates the strong interconnection between medical genre, gendered visions, and new sociopolitical realities after the Reign of Terror. In the years following the Marquis de Sade' La Philosophie dans le boudoir, authors published a stream of books that treated what they called “the natural history of women.” These books were written by an eclectic group of doctors, naturalists, and self-styled men of letters, all of whom wished to explain the physical and moral qualities of women in their entirety. The chapter reviews how the authors sought to influence how their readers thought about gender roles following the French Revolution. Though the writers diverged in opinion, they believed that women's civil and civic status was the greatest political issue of the day, and they hoped to mold public attitudes by sharing the most up-to-date scientific knowledge.