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

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 incr...

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1. Verfasser: Roberts, Mary Louise (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1994.
Schriftenreihe:Women in culture and society.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Brown University), 1990.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations
Auszeichnungen:American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 1994.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-330) and index.
ISBN:9780226721279
0226721272
0226721213
9780226721217
1282070185
9781282070189
9786612070181
6612070188

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