272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Women's Rights and Women's Lives In France 1944-1968 explores key aspects of the everyday lives of women between the Liberation of France and the events of May '68. At the end of the war, French women believed that a new era was beginning and that equality had been won. The redefined postwar public sphere required women's participation for the new democracy, and women's labour power for... Read more
Introduction 1 Liberation 2 Women in public life: the political arena 3 House and home 4 Marriage and motherhood 5 Persistent inequalities: women and employment 6 Women’s rights 7 May ’68
Biography
Claire Duchen is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Sussex. She has also taught at the University of Bath and at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Feminism in France from May ’68 to Mitterrand and editor of French Connections: Voices from the Women’s Movement in France.
