Women's rights and women's lives in France, 1944-1968 / Claire Duchen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duchen, Claire.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--France--Social conditions.

Women.

Women's rights--France--History.

Women's rights.

France--History--1945-.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women's Rights and Women's Lives In France 1944-1968 explores key aspects of the everyday lives of women between the Liberation of France and the events of May '68. At the end of the war, French women believed that a new era was beginning and that equality had been won. The redefined postwar public sphere required women's participation for the new democracy, and women's labour power for reconstruction, but equally important was the belief in women's role as mothers. Over the next two decades, the tensions between competing visions of women's `proper place' dominated discourses of woma

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Acronyms used in the text; Introduction; Liberation; Women in public life: the political arena; House and home; Marriage and motherhood; Persistent inequalities: women and employment; Women's rights; May '68; Notes; Sources and further reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-98458-8

1-280-05527-8

0-203-16867-4

0-415-00934-0

1-134-98459-6

9780203168677

OCLC:

191661929