Description |
1 online resource. |
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Reinventing teacher education
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Reinventing teacher education.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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 |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Women. |
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France. |
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Social conditions. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Sex role -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex role. |
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History. |
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Femininity -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Femininity. |
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Women -- Identity -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Identity. |
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Nationalism -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Nationalism. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France.
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France -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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Civilization. |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
Other Form: |
Print version: COLVIN, KELLY RICCIARDI. GENDER AND FRENCH IDENTITY AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1944-1954. [Place of publication not identified] : BLOOMSBURY, 2017 1350031100 9781350031104 (OCoLC)965737524 |
ISBN |
9781350031128 (electronic book) |
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1350031127 (electronic book) |
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9781350031142 |
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1350031143 |
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9781350031135 (electronic book) |
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1350031135 |
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1350031100 |
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9781350031104 |
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