Women's Rights and Women's Lives in France 1944-68

Claire Duchen explores women's everyday lives in France between the liberation and May '68 and considers the tensions created by competing visions of womanhood.

Informationen zum Autor Claire Duchen is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Sussex. She has also taught at the University of Bath and at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Feminism in France from May '68 to Mitterrand and editor of French Connections: Voices from the Women's Movement in France. Klappentext Women's Rights and Women's Lives In France explores the everyday experiences of women between the liberation, and May 1968. In 1945, French women believed that a new era was beginning for them, in which they had finally won equality (the right to vote in 1944, equal pay and access to education and employment). But the new Republic considered that women's main role was that of motherhood. Competing visions of women's place had concrete implications for women's lives, influencing work, politics and ideals of femininity. Working from a wide range of sources, including women's magazines, prescriptive literature, political pamphlets, fiction and memoirs, and government reports, Claire Duchen follows the debates concerning women through twenty years, and grounds them in the changing social reality of postwar France. Zusammenfassung Claire Duchen explores women's everyday lives in France between the liberation and May '68 and considers the tensions created by competing visions of womanhood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 Liberation 2 Women in public life: the political arena 3 House and home 4 Marriage and motherhood 5 Persistent inequalities: women and employment 6 Women's rights 7 May '68

Autorentext

Claire Duchen is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Sussex. She has also taught at the University of Bath and at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Feminism in France from May '68 to Mitterrand and editor of French Connections: Voices from the Women's Movement in France.

Klappentext

Women's Rights and Women's Lives In France explores the everyday experiences of women between the liberation, and May 1968. In 1945, French women believed that a new era was beginning for them, in which they had finally won equality (the right to vote in 1944, equal pay and access to education and employment). But the new Republic considered that women's main role was that of motherhood. Competing visions of women's place had concrete implications for women's lives, influencing work, politics and ideals of femininity. Working from a wide range of sources, including women's magazines, prescriptive literature, political pamphlets, fiction and memoirs, and government reports, Claire Duchen follows the debates concerning women through twenty years, and grounds them in the changing social reality of postwar France.

Zusammenfassung
Claire Duchen explores women's everyday lives in France between the liberation and May '68 and considers the tensions created by competing visions of womanhood.

Inhalt
Introduction 1 Liberation 2 Women in public life: the political arena 3 House and home 4 Marriage and motherhood 5 Persistent inequalities: women and employment 6 Women's rights 7 May '68