268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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Women's Rights and Women's Lives In France explores the everyday experiences of women between the liberation, and May 1968. In 1945, French women believed that a new era was beginning for them, in which they had finally won equality (the right to vote in 1944, equal pay and access to education and employment). But the new Republic considered that women's main role was that of motherhood.... 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.
