Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948 : choices and constraints
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Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948 : choices and constraints
（Women and men in history）
Longman, 1999
- : hbk.
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk. ISBN 9780582299092
Description
This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the part that women played in both collaboration and resistance, synthesising much recent scholarship on the subject in French and English, and drawing on the author's own extensive research (including oral testimony) in Toulouse, Paris, and West Brittany. The findings are complex, and the immensely varied testimony challenges easy generalisation. This will be relevant for courses on French studies, French and European history and Women's studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Women's Lives During the War and the Occupation 1939-44
1. Financial Resources and Paid Employment
2. Physical Survival
3. Collaborations
4. Resistances
Part Two: Women's Lives After the Occupation 1944-48 - A Liberation?
5. Women and the Purges
6. Everyday Life and Paid Employment 1944-48
7. Women Gain New Rights and Become Citizens
Conclusion
Chronology of main events
Glossary and List of Abbreviations
Map
Bibliographical Essay
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: hbk. ISBN 9780582299108
Description
This study provides an account of women's experience of the French occupation and liberation during World War II. It considers the political choices they had to make and the pressures and constraints they were under.
Table of Contents
- Part I Women's lives during the war and the occupation 1939-44: financial resources and paid employment
- physical survival
- collaborations
- resistances. Part II Women's lives after the occupation, 1944-48, a liberation?: women and the purges
- everyday life and paid employment 1944-48
- women gain new rights and become citizens.
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