Women in France since 1789 : the meanings of difference / Susan K. Foley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foley, Susan K., 1949-

Series:

European studies series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

European studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--France--Social conditions--19th century.

Women.

Women--France--Social conditions--20th century.

Sex role--France--History--19th century.

Sex role.

Sex role--France--History--20th century.

History.

Social conditions.

France.

Physical Description:

xi, 378 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

Susan K. Foley traces the changes in women's lives in France from 1789 to the present, examining debates over gender and the anxiety created by women's perceived departure from ideals of womanhood. Foley explores major controversies over matters such as reproductive rights, significant cultural changes, and women's often underestimated political roles. In so doing, she demonstrates women's efforts over two centuries to create a place in society on their own terms.

Contents:

Introduction: The French Revolution and Gender Politics - Creating a World of Difference 1

Part I The Social Structures of Difference: The Nineteenth-Century Gender Order 25

1 Elite Women 27

2 Urban Working Women 56

3 Peasant Women 80

Part II Sex and Citizenship, 1814-1914 103

4 Women, Politics and Citizenship, 1814-1852 105

5 Women and the Creation of Republican France, 1852-1914 129

Part III Women in the Era of the Great Wars, 1890-1944 153

6 'New Women' in the Era of the Great War, 1890s-1920s 155

7 Taking Sides: Women in the 1930s 185

8 Vichy France: Reviving the 'Natural Woman', 1940-1944 210

Part IV Transformations and Continuities, 1945-2003 233

9 From the Liberation to 'Women's Liberation', 1945-1975 235

10 The Politics of 'Women's Place' since 1975 266

Conclusion: Equality and 'Difference' - Women's Lives from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-358) and index.

ISBN:

0333619927

0333619935

OCLC:

55124879