LEADER 04445nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910822261403321 005 20240430185401.0 010 $a1-282-07018-5 010 $a9786612070181 010 $a0-226-72127-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226721279 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396155 035 $a(EBL)432287 035 $a(OCoLC)368265682 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000083961 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11116395 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083961 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10163298 035 $a(PQKB)10440106 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432287 035 $a(DE-B1597)535756 035 $a(OCoLC)1097085992 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226721279 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432287 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10286153 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207018 035 $a(dli)HEB00495 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000003603019 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396155 100 $a19930712d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCivilization without sexes $ereconstructing gender in postwar France, 1917-1927 /$fMary Louise Roberts 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 225 1 $aWomen in culture and society 225 0$aWomen in culture and society 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Brown University), 1990. 311 0 $a0-226-72122-1 311 0 $a0-226-72121-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-330) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tFOREWORD --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tIntroduction. "THIS CIVILIZATION NO LONGER HAS SEXES" --$tPART ONE. LA FEMME MODERNE --$tPART TWO. LA MERE --$tPART THREE. LA FEMME SEULE --$tConclusion. 'ARE WE WITNESSING THE BIRTH OF A NEW CIVILIZATION?' --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise Roberts examines how in these debates French society came to grips with the catastrophic horrors of the Great War. In sources as diverse as parliamentary records, newspaper articles, novels, medical texts, writings on sexology, and vocational literature, Roberts discovers a central question: how to come to terms with rapid economic, social, and cultural change and articulate a new order of social relationships. She examines the role of French trauma concerning the War in legislative efforts to ban propaganda for abortion and contraception, and explains anxieties about the decline of maternity by a crisis in gender relations that linked soldiery, virility, and paternity. Through these debates, Roberts locates the seeds of actual change. She shows how the willingness to entertain, or simply the need to condemn, nontraditional gender roles created an indecisiveness over female identity that ultimately subverted even the most conservative efforts to return to traditional gender roles and irrevocably altered the social organization of gender in postwar France. 410 0$aWomen in culture and society. 606 $aSex role$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen$zFrance$xSocial conditions 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects$zFrance 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xWomen$zFrance 610 $agender, postwar, wartime, history, historical, wwi, world war, france, french, europe, european, 1900s, 20th century, reconstruction, roles, academic, scholarly, research, culture, cultural, parliament, primary source, newspaper, articles, novels, medical, sexology, vocational, literature, literary, women, woman, maternity, family, social studies. 615 0$aSex role$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xWomen 676 $a305.3/0944 700 $aRoberts$b Mary Louise$0868130 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822261403321 996 $aCivilization without sexes$91938023 997 $aUNINA