JEWS AND GENDER IN LIBERATION FRANCE by K. H. Adler ( 9780521790482 )

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JEWS AND GENDER IN LIBERATION FRANCE

By:

K. H. Adler

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0521790484

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 August, 2003

Series:

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare No. 14

Pages:

288

Description:

A new look at France during and after the German occupation in World War II.

Synopsis:

This book takes a new look at occupied and liberated France through the dual prism of race, specifically Jewishness, and gender - core components of Vichy ideology. The imagining of liberation and the potential post-Vichy state, lay at the heart of resistance strategy. Their transformation into policy at liberation forms the basis of an enquiry that reveals a society which, while split deeply at the political level, found considerable agreement over questions of race, the family and gender. This is explained through a new analysis of republican assimilation which insists that gender was as important a factor as nationality or ethnicity. A new concept of the 'long liberation' provides a framework for understanding the continuing influence of the liberation in post-war France, where scientific planning came to the fore, but whose exponents were profoundly imbued with reductive beliefs about Jews and women that were familiar during Vichy.

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