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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808222803321

Autore

Duchen Claire

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

1-134-98458-8

1-280-05527-8

0-203-16867-4

0-415-00934-0

1-134-98459-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/0944

Soggetti

Women - France - Social conditions

Women's rights - France - History

France History 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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