Title: Jews and gender in liberation France
Description: 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.
Subjects: Ethnic relations, History, Jews, Nonfiction, Social conditions, Women, World War, 1939-1945, Jews, social conditions, Women, social conditions, World war, 1939-1945, jews, World war, 1939-1945, women, France, history, german occupation, 1940-1945, France, history, 20th century, France, social conditions, France, ethnic relations, France, history, 1945-, Jews, france, Women, france
Places: France
Time periods: 1945-1958, 20th century, German occupation, 1940-1945