Shorn Women - Gender and Punishment in Liberation France

Zusatztext 'At last! the story of this common act of retribution ... a remarkable achievement.'Le Monde'Painstaking crosschecking of grains of information gleaned from diverse sources ... achieved to perfection ... This book is a masterpiece of historical method and should be recommended reading for all serious scholars of history whatever their subject matter. One of the best pieces of scholarship about the Second World War! the sooner it becomes available in English the better.'Modern and Contemporary France 'We have had to wait over half a century for a systematic historical study to appear concerning the public shaving of women ...allegedly punished for 'horizontal collaboration'...[the author] brings the evidence of his research to light with convincing and indisputable precision.'Le Monde Diplomatique'Fabrice Virgili introduces new factors into the historical debate over the division between legal and illegal acts of reparation.'Le Monde des Debats'A remarkable work ...Fabrice Virgili...succe Informationen zum Autor Fabrice Virgili Historian and Researcher,Institut d'histoire du temps présent, CNRS Translated by John Flower, University of Kent at Canterbury Zusammenfassung At the end of World War II, over 20,000 French people accused of collaboration with Germany endured a particularly humiliating act of revenge: their heads were shaved in public. Nearly all those punished were women. This book sheds light on these acts of retribution and reveals that, a vast number of those women accused were actually innocent. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsTranslator's NoteIntroductionPart I: From Myth to Reality1 Sexual Collaboration?2 Where and How Many?Part II: 1943@1946: The High Season3 During the Occupation . . .4 The Explosion of the Liberation5 Head Shaving and Brutalities After the LiberationPart III: Why?6 Neighbourhood Violence7 Women as Scapegoats8 Virile FranceAppendix: A Paucity of Sources?SourcesNotesReferencesIndex...

Product details

• Authors: John Flower, Fabrice Virgili, Virgili Fabrice
• Assisted by: John Flower (Translation), John A. Flower (Translation), Flower John (Translation)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2002
• EAN: 9781859735848
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-584-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Women, Second World War, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Gender studies: women, Modern warfare, Gender studies: women and girls, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General