gender in the making of the french social model
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Frader, Laura Levine
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- FR 52 2008
- Thesaurus
- kostwinners, etniciteit, betaalde arbeid, vakbonden, gelijke behandeling, demografie, feminisme, mannelijkheid, vrouwelijkheid, geboorteregeling, interbellum, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, Frankrijk
- Description
- 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, femininity, family, and work affected post–World War I reconstruction, policies designed to address France’s postwar population deficit, and efforts to redefine citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s. She demonstrates that gender divisions and the male breadwinner ideal were reaffirmed through the policies and practices of labor, management, and government. The social model that France implemented in the 1920s and 1930s incorporated fundamental social inequalities.