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Author Adler, K. H. (Karen H.)

Title Jews and gender in liberation France / K.H. Adler
Published Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations, portraits, maps
Series Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; no. 14
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 14.
Contents Introduction: The long liberation -- Narrating liberation -- Anticipating liberation: the gendered nation in print -- Limiting liberation: 'the French for France' -- Controlling liberation: Georges Mauco and a population fit for France -- Liberation in place: Jewish women in the city
Summary "This book takes a new look at occupied and liberated France through the dual prism of race, specifically Jewishness, and gender--core components of Vichy ideology. Imagining liberation, and the potential post-Vichy state, lay at the heart of resistance strategy. The development of these ideas, and their transformation into policy at liberation, form the basis of an enquiry that reveals a society which, while split deeply at the political level, found considerable agreement over questions of race, the family and gender. This is explained through a new analysis of republican assimilation which insists that gender was as important a factor as nationality or ethnicity. A new concept of the 'long liberation' provides a framework for understanding the continuing influence of the liberation in post-war France, where scientific planning came to the fore, but whose exponents were profoundly imbued with reductive beliefs about Jews and women that were familiar during Vichy."--Publisher's description
This book takes a new look at France during and after the German occupation. It challenges traditional chronology that concentrates on the Vichy government and punctures standard interpretations that divide occupied France into resisters and collaborators. Throughout, race - specifically Jewishness - and gender are drawn together in original and illuminating ways
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-258) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jews -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- France
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France
HISTORY.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Jews -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Women
Women -- Social conditions
Befreiung
Juden
Geschlechterrolle
Ideologie
SUBJECT France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051418
France -- History -- 1945-1958. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005552
France -- Social conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87008022
France -- Ethnic relations
Subject France
Frankreich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004295011
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