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Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914-1945
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by Kristen Stromberg Childers
Sales Rank: 953261
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 256 pages
Published by: Cornell University Press December 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0801441226
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0801441226
Book Dimensions:
9.8 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Book Description
The states policy with regard to fathers and fatherhood had a great impact on concepts of citizenship and gender in France in the era of the two World Wars. Drawing on new material that has only recently become available from the archives of the Vichy regime, Kristen Stromberg Childers analyzes the ways fathers were promoted as saviors of the nation after Frances humiliating defeat by the Germans in June 1940. Childers argues that concern for the family and for the status of fathers in modern France was not merely a response to falling birthrates and German aggression, but was fundamental to the very notion of citizenship and political participation.
The debate on men as gendered beings, Childers demonstrates, is central to the political, social, and cultural history of France in the modern age. The father figure became a focus as participants from all classes and across the political spectrum debated what was wrong with the French family and what policies were needed to remedy the problem. Childers looks at how these policies were implemented, what they reveal about the development of the welfare state in France, and how they help explain the importance of Vichy in twentieth-century French history. Twenty-eight illustrations, including fifteen photographs, many never previously published, complement her argument.
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"Fathers, Families, and the State in France is a subtle, sophisticated gender history that traces the way the French state sought to define and redefine the meaning of fatherhood in the twentieth century. As Kristin Stromberg Childers reveals, a succession of paternalist regimes confronted the impossible challenge of setting the standards of fatherhood without undermining the authority of individual fathers. This is one of the finest histories of men and masculinity we have"-Edward Berenson, Director, Institute of French Studies, New York University
"While historians of modern France stress the critical importance of family and population, few have considered where and how fathers fit into all of this. This original, well-researched, engagingly written, and thought-provoking book explores the evolution of the legal position of fathers, then relates fatherhood to the origins of the welfare state and growing anxieties in the mid-nineteenth century about depopulation and family breakdown."-Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
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