Sarah Fishman

From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution

Gender and Family Life in Postwar France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the decades after World War II, French ideas about gender and family life underwent dramatic changes, laying the groundwork for the sexual revolution of the 1960s. This book offers a broad view of changing lives and ideas about love, courtship, marriage, giving birth, parenting, childhood, and adolescence in France from the Vichy regime to the sexual revolution of 1960s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780190248628
• ISBN-10: 0190248629
• Artikelnr.: 47863608

Autorenporträt

Sarah Fishman is Professor of History at the University of Houston. Her books include The Battle for Children: World War II, Youth Crime and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century France and We Will Wait: Wives of French Prisoners of War, 1940-1945.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The 1940s?From War to Peace
Chapter 1: Men, Women, and Family Life, 1945-1949
Chapter 2: Forces of Change
Chapter 3: Marriage and Parenting in the 1950s
Chapter 4: Children and Adolescents in the 1950s
Chapter 5: Family, Sex, Marriage, and the New Self
Chapter 6: Youth, Women, Jeunes Filles
Chapter 7: Dating and Courtship
Chapter 8: Something Old, Something New: Marriage and Children in the 1960s
Bibliography