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Civilization without Sexes - Mary Louise Roberts

Civilization without Sexes

Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927
Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
1994
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-72122-4 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
After World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This book examines how, through public debates concerning female identity, French society came to grips with the horrors of the Great War.
In the 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 sexology, and vocational literature, Roberts discovers a central question: how to come to terms with rapid economic, social and cultural change and articulate a new order of social relationships. She examines the role of French trauma concerning the War in legislative efforts to ban propaganda for abortion and contraception, and explains anxieties about the decline of maternity by a crisis in gender relations that linked soldiery, virility, and paternity. Through these debates, Roberts locates the seeds of actual change.
She shows how the willingness to entertain, or simply the need to condemn, non-traditional gender roles created an indecisiveness over female identity that ultimately subverted even the most conservative efforts to return to traditional gender roles and irrevocably altered the social organization of gender in postwar France.

Mary Louise Roberts is associate professor of history at Stanford University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.3.1994
Reihe/Serie Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
Sprache englisch
Maße 15 x 23 mm
Gewicht 567 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-226-72122-1 / 0226721221
ISBN-13 978-0-226-72122-4 / 9780226721224
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