Civilization Without Sexes Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927

Name: Civilization Without Sexes Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927
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ISBN: 9780226721224

ISBN-10: 0226721221

ISBN-13: 9780226721224

Edition: 1994

Authors: Mary Louise Roberts

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In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise Roberts examines how in these debates French society came to grips with the catastrophic horrors of the Great War. In sources as diverse as parliamentary records, newspaper articles, novels, medical texts, writings on sexology, and vocational literature, Roberts discovers a central question: how to come to terms…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/3/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Mary Louise Roberts is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and the author ofï¿½ What Soldiersï¿½Do:ï¿½Sex and the American GIï¿½in World War II France, Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin de Siï¿½cle France and Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917–1928.



Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson


Acknowledgments


Introduction - This Civilization No Longer Has Sexes



La Femme Moderne



This Being Without Breasts, Without Hips



She Stood at the Center of a Shattered World



Women Are Cutting Their Hair as a Sign of Sterility



La Mere



A Matter of Life or Death



Madame Doesn't Want a Child



La Femme Seule



There Is Something Else in Life besides Love



We Must Facilitate the Transition to the New World


Conclusion - Are We Witnessing the Birth of a New Civilization?


Notes


Index