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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©1994.
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| Colección: | Women in culture and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Brown University), 1990. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations |
| Premios: | American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 1994. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-330) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226721279 0226721272 0226721213 9780226721217 1282070185 9781282070189 9786612070181 6612070188 |