Women's Rights and Women's Lives in France 1944-68

by Claire Duchen

Book Overview

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. Competing visions of women's place had concrete implications...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415009340
• ISBN13: 9780415009348
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary