| Description |
448 pages ; 22cm |
| Series |
European studies series |
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European studies series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
Introduction : the French revolution and gender politics - creating a world of difference -- Pt. I. The social structures of difference : the nineteenth century gender order -- 1. Elite women -- 2. Urban working women -- 3. Peasant women -- Pt. II. Sex and citizenship, 1814-1914 -- 4. Women, politics and citizenship, 1814-1852 -- 5. Women and the creation of republican France, 1852-1914 -- Pt. III. Women in the era of the Great Wars, 1890-1944 -- 6. 'New women' in the era of the Great War, 1890s-1920s -- 7. Taking sides : women in the 1930s -- 8. Vichy France : reviving the 'natural woman', 1940-1944 -- Pt. IV. Transformations and continuities, 1945-2003 -- 9. From the Liberation to 'women's liberation', 1945-1975 -- 10. The politics of 'women's place' since 1975 -- Conclusion : equality and 'difference' - women's lives from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century |
| Summary |
Susan K. Foley traces the changes in women's lives in France from 1789 to the present, examining debates over gender and the anxiety created by women's perceived departure from ideals of womanhood. Foley at Victoria University of Wellington, and Principal Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Vic |
| Analysis |
Women's studies (France) |
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Social history |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 350-358. - Includes index |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate |
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Postgraduate |
| Subject |
Women -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex role -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Sex role -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
2004050003 |
| ISBN |
0333619927 cased |
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0333619935 paperback |
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