Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model

by Laura L. Frader

Book Overview

Laura Levine Frader's synthesis of labor history and gender history brings to the fore failures in realizing the French social model of equality for all citizens. Challenging previous scholarship, she argues that the male breadwinner ideal was stronger in France in the interwar years than scholars have typically recognized, and that it had negative consequences for women's claims to the full benefits of citizenship. She describes how ideas about masculinity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341980
• ISBN13: 9780822341987
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"