New York: George Braziller, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which recounts the mostly ignored role of the women of France in the Revolution - or, as the dustjacket describes it: "The Fantastic Story Of The Women Of The Paris Commune Who Took Up Arms In The Fight For Liberty And Equality. . During the bloody days of the Commune in the spring of 1871, after the Prussians had lifted their siege of Paris, women of the laboring class, and even of the lower middle class, began to demand the rights of their male counterparts, make common cause with the proletariat in general, join political committees, and fight behind the barricades in a desperate attempt to throw off the yoke of economic exploitation, domestic servitude, and the resultant squalid misery that had been their lot since before the Industrial Revolution." Translated from the French by James and Starr Atkinson. Appendix. notes. manuscript sources. newspapers consulted. bibliography. index. xiv, 274 pp.