ISBN:
9780226721279
,
0226721272
,
9780226721217
,
0226721213
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 337 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Women in culture and society
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Roberts, Mary Louise Civilization without sexes
DDC:
305.30944
Keywords:
Sex role History
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20th century
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France
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Women Social conditions
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France
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World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects
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France
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World War, 1914-1918 Women
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France
;
World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects
;
World War, 1914-1918 Women
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Sex role History 20th century
;
Women Social conditions
;
World War, 1914-1918 France
;
Sex role
;
Women
;
Social aspects
;
Women ; Social conditions
;
Vrouwen
;
Sekserol
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies
;
History
;
France
;
Electronic books History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
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
Note:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Brown University), 1990. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-330) and index. - Description based on print version record
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