Women in France since 1789 The Meaning of Difference

by Foley, Susan K.

• ISBN13: 9780333619933
• ISBN10: 0333619935
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

This compelling study traces the changes in women's lives in France from 1789 to the present. Susan K. Foley surveys the patterns of women's experiences in the socially segregated society of the early nineteenth century, and then traces the evolution of their lifestyles to the turn of the twenty-first century, when many of the earlier social distinctions had disappeared. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Susan K. Foley is Associate Professor of History at Victoria University of Wellington, and Principal Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction: The French Revolution and Gender Politics - Creating a World of Difference	1	(24)
Part I The Social Structures of Difference: The Nineteenth-Century Gender Order	25	(78)
1 Elite Women	27	(29)
2 Urban Working Women	56	(24)
3 Peasant Women	80	(23)
Part II Sex and Citizenship, 1814-1914	103	(50)
4 Women, Politics and Citizenship, 1814-1852	105	(24)
5 Women and the Creation of Republican France, 1852-1914	129	(24)
Part III Women in the Era of the Great Wars, 1890-1944	153	(80)
6 'New Women' in the Era of the Great War, 1890's-1920's	155	(30)
7 Taking Sides: Women in the 1930's	185	(25)
8 Vichy France: Reviving the 'Natural Woman', 1940-1944	210	(23)
Part IV Transformations and Continuities, 1945-2003	233	(55)
9 From the Liberation to 'Women's Liberation', 1945-1975	235	(31)
10 The Politics of 'Women's Place' since 1975	266	(22)
Conclusion: Equality and 'Difference' - Women's Lives from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century	288	(10)
Notes	298	(52)
Suggestions for Further Reading	350	(9)
Index	359