From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution: Gender and Family Life in Postwar France

by Sarah Fishman

At the end of World War II, France discarded not only the Vichy regime but also the austere ideology behind it. Under the veneer of a conservative vision of family characterized by the traditional structure of a male breadwinner and female homemaker, the conception of love, marriage, and parenting began changing in the years immediately after the Liberation. In the 1950s, France experienced rapid economic development alongside a baby boom, changing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190248629
• ISBN13: 9780190248628
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"