Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : republicanism, imperialism, and political and social action in metropolitan France and the empire
  • The culture of war and the masculine world of the early Croix de feu, 1927-1934
  • Building a social action movement : women, Catholicism, and the Croix de feu/PSF's social first! strategy, 1934-1939
  • Challenges to women's autonomy and authority : health, financing, and civic action
  • 1934-1939
  • Transforming French physical culture : social Darwinism, bodily fitness, and gender, 1934-1939
  • Women, race, and culture in the Croix de feu/PSF : entertainment, enlightenment values, and the civilizing mission, 1934-1939
  • Social and political action in North Africa : the fascism of the Croix de feu/PSF in the French Maghreb, 1927-1940
  • "The army of the good" : Vichy and the feminization of the Croix de feu/PSF, 1939-1945
  • Conclusion : gender, race, and empire in the sociocultural action of the Croix de feu/PSF.