Marianne or Germania?
Subtitle: nationalizing women in Alsace, 1870-1946
By: Elizabeth Vlossak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780199561117
Subjects: Social conditions; Women; Nationalism; History
Description: 'Marianne or Germania?' is a comprehensive study of modern Alsatian history using gender as a category of historical analysis, and the first to record the experiences of the region's women from 1870 to 1946.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Schooling the step-daughters of Germania : education and the press, 1871-1914; title: An Alsatian women's movement : nation, region, confession, and the limits of German feminism, 1874-1914; title: Alsatian women and the Great War, 1914-18; title: Rebuilding French Alsace : language, myth, and the Republican ideal, 1914-24; title: "Malaise Alsacien" : malaise feminin : Alsatian women's identity in question, 1918-39; title: From Nazi re-annexation to full citizenship : the final stage of nationalization, 1940-6.