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France Between the Wars: Gender and Politics

By Sian Reynolds

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
9780415127363, 041512736X, 9780203289907, 9780415127370, 0415127378
LCC
HQ1236.5.F8 R49 1996
Open Library ID
OL814515M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1200238 bytes)
Pages
296\293
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

France Between the Wars challenges a prevailing assumption that women had little influence or power in France during the interwar period. Sian Reynolds shows how women in fact had both autonomy and authority within the political arena through their activities in social work, peace movements and strikes, and in other areas less directly linked with conventional politics. Sian Reynolds brings together two kinds of history: the political history of France between the wars as it appears in general textbooks, and the work carried out in women's history covering the same period. In doing so she creates a history in which gender contributes in new ways to historical analysis. The book is not, however, concerned exclusively with critical hariography. It is also the result of the author's and others' recent empirical and archival research. As such, it is a book which will appeal to both those studying French history and women's history.

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