Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France

by Miranda Pollard

Book Overview

In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France.

Drawing on governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda, Pollard explores what most historians have ignored: the many ways in which Vichy's politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226673502
• ISBN13: 9780226673509
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"