From Vichy to the sexual revolution : gender and family life in postwar France /

At the end of World War II, France discarded not only the Vichy regime but also the austere ideology behind it. Under the veneer of a conservative vision of family characterized by the traditional structure of a male breadwinner and female homemaker, the conception of love, marriage and parenting be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fishman, Sarah, 1957- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Sex role > France > History > 20th century. Families > France > History > 20th century. Sex > Social aspects > France > History > 20th century. Man-woman relationships > France > History > 20th century. Women > France > Social conditions > 20th century. Social change > France > History > 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > France. World War, 1939-1945 > Influence. France > Social conditions > 1945-1995. France > Social policy. HISTORY / Europe / France. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. The 1940s--from war to peace
Men, women, and family life, 1945-1949
Forces of change
Marriage and parenting in the 1950s
Children and adolescents in the 1950s
Family, sex, marriage, and the new self
Youth, women, jeunes filles
Dating and courtship
Something old, something new : marriage and children in the 1960s.