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Miranda Pollard

Reign of Virtue

Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France

308 pages, 19 halftones  6 x 9  © 1998
Series: Women in Culture and Society Series

Cloth $55.00

ISBN: 9780226673493   Published December 1998

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226673509   Published December 1998

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1: "We are Beaten": Women, Natalism, and Familialism from the Third Republic to Vichy
2: "The Blood Tax of Motherhood": Vichy and the Regulation of Female Sexuality
3: "To Make Men of Them"? Education for a New France
4: Vichy In/Action: Mobilizing Men and "Family"
5: "Do Not Expect Too Much from the State": Images, Words, and Action in Vichy's Welfarism
6: "In the Present Circumstances": Women's Work, Women's Dependency
7: A Story of Women? Vichy and the Politics of Abortion, 1942-44
Conclusion: The Etat Francais and the Politics of Gender
Notes
References
Index
Subjects



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