Women’s Representations of the Occupation in Post-’68 France

Women’s Representations of the Occupation in Post-’68 France
ISBN-10
134926461X
ISBN-13
9781349264612
Category
Political Science
Pages
168
Language
English
Published
1998-08-12
Publisher
Springer
Author
Claire Gorrara

Description

This study examines French women's writing and representations of the Occupation in post-'68 France. The author looks at the work of 'The Women Resisters', those women who were adult resisters during the war, and 'The Daughters of the Occupation', those who were born during or after the war period. The main contention of the study is that the older generation's nascent awareness of how gender informs political activism is reworked into explicitly feminist representations of wartime France by younger women writers.

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