Reign of virtue : mobilizing gender in Vichy France

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Reign of virtue : mobilizing gender in Vichy France

Miranda Pollard

(Women in culture and society : a series / edited by Catharine R. Stimpson)

The University of Chicago Press, c1998

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:cloth : alk. paper ISBN 9780226673493

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Exploring the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France, this text uses such sources as governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda. Miranda Pollard explores the ways in which Vichy politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy wanted to return France to an illustrious and largely mythical past of harmony, where citizens all knew their places and fulfilled their responsibilities, where order prevailed. The National Revolution, according to Pollard, replaced the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity with work, family and fatherland, making the acceptance of traditional masculine and feminine roles a key priority. The author shows how Vichy's policies promoted the family as the most important social unit of a new France and elevated married mothers to a new social status - even as their educational, employment, and reproductive rights were strictly curtailed.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1: "We are Beaten": Women, Natalism, and Familialism from the Third Republic to Vichy 2: "The Blood Tax of Motherhood": Vichy and the Regulation of Female Sexuality 3: "To Make Men of Them"? Education for a New France 4: Vichy In/Action: Mobilizing Men and "Family" 5: "Do Not Expect Too Much from the State": Images, Words, and Action in Vichy's Welfarism 6: "In the Present Circumstances": Women's Work, Women's Dependency 7: A Story of Women? Vichy and the Politics of Abortion, 1942-44 Conclusion: The Etat Francais and the Politics of Gender Notes References Index
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Exploring the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France, this text uses such sources as governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda. Miranda Pollard explores the ways in which Vichy politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy wanted to return France to an illustrious and largely mythical past of harmony, where citizens all knew their places and fulfilled their responsibilities, where order prevailed. The National Revolution, according to Pollard, replaced the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity with work, family and fatherland, making the acceptance of traditional masculine and feminine roles a key priority. The author shows how Vichy's policies promoted the family as the most important social unit of a new France and elevated married mothers to a new social status - even as their educational, employment, and reproductive rights were strictly curtailed.

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