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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; CONTENTS; Part Two
- La Mere; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction This Civilization No Longer Has Sexes; Part One
- La Femme Modeme; 1 This Being Without Breasts, Without Hips; 2 She Stood at the Center of a Shattered World; 3 Women Are Cutting Their Hair as a Sign of Sterility; Figures follow page 88; 4 A Matter of Life or Death; 5 Madame Doesn't Want a Child; Part Three
- La Femme Seule; 6 There Is Something Else in Life besides Love; 7 We Must Facilitate the Transition to the New World; Conclusion
- Are We Witnessing the Birth of a New Civilization?; Notes; Index.