Exclusions : practicing prejudice in French law and medicine, 1920-1945 / Julie Fette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fette, Julie, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawyers--France--History--20th century.

Lawyers.

Physicians--France--History--20th century.

Physicians.

Professions--Social aspects--France--History--20th century.

Professions.

Discrimination in employment--France--History--20th century.

Discrimination in employment.

History.

Professions--Social aspects.

France.

Physical Description:

xi, 314 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This study explores the exclusion of foreigners, lower classes and women from French medical and legal professions from the late nineteenth century through World War II. Fette (French studies, Rice U.) has thoroughly researched this damning historical account of the factors leading to and the expression of xenophobic, aristocratic, misogynistic and eventually antisemitic policies in France. Full of the doctors and lawyers own voices arguing for these "protections", the text sheds new light on current immigration and national identity struggles. Often assumed to be an aberration, the Vichy reign's deportation of foreign born doctors in 1940 is shown to have evidence of a history of exclusionary practices, some of which remain today in these professions, long thought to be paragons of meritocratic opportunity. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The nineteenth-century origins of exclusion in the professions

Defense of the corps : the medical mobilization against foreigners and naturalized citizens

The art of medicine : access and status

The barrier of the law bar

Citizens into lawyers : extra assimilation required

Lawyers during Vichy : exclusion in the law

L'ordre des médecins : corporatist debut and anti-Semitic climax.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801450211

0801450217

OCLC:

754105698