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Civilization without sexes : reconstructing gender in postwar France, 1917-1927 / Mary Louise Roberts

Roberts, Mary Louise [Verfasser]

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 337 pages) : Illustrations

Women in culture and society

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Brown University), 1990

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-330) and index

978-0-226-72127-9 ; 0-226-72127-2 ; 0-226-72121-3

MS 1208 NW 8100

 

In 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 se.