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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherDartmouth College
ISBN-100874518148
ISBN-139780874518146
eBay Product ID (ePID)232058
Product Key Features
Number of Pages239 Pages
Publication NameGender and Fascism in Modern France
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEurope / Germany, Europe / Western, Europe / France, Gender Studies
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
AuthorRichard J. Golsan
SeriesContemporary French Culture and Society Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN9755-000030
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal840.9/358
SynopsisDiscovering the ways gender issues are articulated in the cultures of the extreme right in modern France., While the relationship between gender and fascism has been fully explored in studies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, attitudes toward women in the reactionary politics of post-revolutionary France have received little scholarly attention. This collection looks at right-wing ideology and its relation to gender in a variety of historical and cultural contexts, including women's writing, children's stories, film, books, magazines, and propaganda pieces. The volume addresses the question of whether fascism's stereotype as "a pathologically masculine" ideology is indeed true. Essays explore topics like women and anti-Semitism during the Dreyfus affair, Genet and the fantasy of homo-fascism, gendered eugenics, and female icons during the Vichy period. Locating the intersection of gender and the right, the editors explain, significantly alters traditional perspectives on French culture in this century, thereby bringing to light not only new objects of study but challenging a priori assumptions about France's cultural politics.