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Author COLVIN, KELLY RICCIARDI

Title GENDER AND FRENCH IDENTITY AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1944-1954 : engendering frenchness
Published [Place of publication not identified] : BLOOMSBURY, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Reinventing teacher education
Contents Introduction: France is beginning again -- The re-victimization of France -- Women as victims -- The war for love -- Looks -- Disreputable women -- Women as voters -- Conclusion: le deluge
Summary "The enfranchisement of women in Charles de Gaulle's France in 1944 is considered a potent element in the nation's self-crafted, triumphant World War Two narrative: the French, conquered by the Germans, valiantly resisted until they rescued themselves and built a new democracy, honoring France's longstanding liberal traditions. Kelly Ricciardi Colvin's Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944-1954 calls that potent element into question. By analyzing a range of sources, including women's magazines, trials, memoirs, and spy novels, this book explores the ways in which culture was used to limit the power of the female vote. It exposes a wide network of constructed behavioral norms that supported a conservative vision of French identity. Taken together, they depicted men as virile Resistors for French democracy and history, and women as solely domestic support. Indeed Colvin shows that women's access to the vote emerged alongside an explosion of cultural messages that encouraged them to retreat into the home, to find mates, to have 'millions of beautiful babies', in the words of de Gaulle, and not to challenge patriarchy in any way. This is a vital study for understanding the nature of postwar France and women's history in 20th-century Europe."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Sex role -- France -- History -- 20th century
Femininity -- France -- History -- 20th century
Women -- Identity -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism -- France -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
Gender studies: women.
European history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Civilization
Femininity
Nationalism
Sex role
Women
Women -- Identity
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT France -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051193
Subject France
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781350031128
1350031127
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