In the 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 with rapid economic, social and cultural change and articulate a new order of social relationships. She examines the role of French trauma concerning the War in legislative efforts to ban propaganda for abortion and contraception, and explains anxieties about the decline of maternity by a crisis in gender relations that linked soldiery, virility, and paternity. Through these debates, Roberts locates the seeds of actual change. She shows how the willingness to entertain, or simply the need to condemn, non-traditional gender roles created an indecisiveness over female identity that ultimately subverted even the most conservative efforts to return to traditional gender roles and irrevocably altered the social organization of gender in postwar France.
發表於2024-11-27
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圖書標籤: of domesticity convincing analysis WWI Post-war France Feminism
其實很喜歡Roberts的論點。隻不過approach上的問題太多瞭。原本可以是個非常棒的"Scott Project".
評分其實很喜歡Roberts的論點。隻不過approach上的問題太多瞭。原本可以是個非常棒的"Scott Project".
評分其實很喜歡Roberts的論點。隻不過approach上的問題太多瞭。原本可以是個非常棒的"Scott Project".
評分其實很喜歡Roberts的論點。隻不過approach上的問題太多瞭。原本可以是個非常棒的"Scott Project".
評分其實很喜歡Roberts的論點。隻不過approach上的問題太多瞭。原本可以是個非常棒的"Scott Project".
Civilization without Sexes 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載