1st Edition
Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948 Choices and Constraints
By Hanna Diamond
Copyright 1999
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the part that women played in both collaboration and resistance, synthesising much recent scholarship on the subject in French and English, and drawing on the author's own extensive research (including oral... Read more
Introduction. Part One: Women's Lives During the War and the Occupation 1939-44. 1. Financial Resources and Paid Employment. 2. Physical Survival. 3. Collaborations. 4. Resistances. Part Two: Women's Lives After the Occupation 1944-48 - A Liberation? 5. Women and the Purges. 6. Everyday Life and Paid Employment 1944-48. 7. Women Gain New Rights and Become Citizens. Conclusion. Chronology of main events. Glossary and List of Abbreviations. Map. Bibliographical Essay.
Biography
Hanna Diamond
