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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fette, Julie, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Discrimination in employment.

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

Lawyers.

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

Physicians.

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

Professions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 1930's, the French Third Republic banned naturalized citizens from careers in law and medicine for up to ten years after they had obtained French nationality. In 1940, the Vichy regime permanently expelled all lawyers and doctors born of foreign fathers and imposed a 2 percent "a on Jews in both professions. On the basis of extensive archival research, Julie Fette shows in Exclusions that doctors and lawyers themselves, despite their claims to embody republican virtues, persuaded the French state to enact this exclusionary legislation. At the crossroads of knowledge and power, lawyers and doctors had long been dominant forces in French society: they ran hospitals and courts, doubled as university professors, held posts in parliament and government, and administered justice and public health for the nation. Their social and political influence was crucial in spreading xenophobic attitudes and rendering them more socially acceptable in France. Fette traces the origins of this professional protectionism to the late nineteenth century, when the democratization of higher education sparked efforts by doctors and lawyers to close ranks against women and the lower classes in addition to foreigners. The legislatively imposed delays on the right to practice law and medicine remained in force until the 1970's, and only in 1997 did French lawyers and doctors formally recognize their complicity in the anti-Semitic policies of the Vichy regime. Fette's book is a powerful contribution to the argument that French public opinion favored exclusionary measures in the last years of the Third Republic and during the Holocaust.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Exclusion in the Professions

2. Defense of the Corps: The Medical Mobilization against Foreigners and Naturalized Citizens

3. The Art of Medicine: Access and Status

4. The Barrier of the Law Bar

5. Citizens into Lawyers: Extra Assimilation Required

6. Lawyers during the Vichy Regime: Exclusion in the Law

7. L 'Ordre des Médecins: Corporatist Debut and Anti-Semitic Climax

Conclusion: Postwar Continuities and the Rupture of Public Apology

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780801464461

0801464463

9780801463990

0801463998

OCLC:

794489769