Jews and Gender in Liberation France

This Book Takes A New Look At Occupied And Liberated France Through The Dual Prism Of Race Specifically Jewishness And Gender - Core Components Of Vichy Ideology. The Imagining Of Liberation And The Potential Post-Vichy State Lay At The Heart Of Resistance Strategy. Their Transformation Into Policy At Liberation Forms The Basis Of An Enquiry That Reveals A Society Which While Split Deeply At The Political Level Found Considerable Agreement Over Questions Of Race The Family And Gender. This Is Explained Through A New Analysis Of Republican Assimilation Which Insists That Gender Was As Important A Factor As Nationality Or Ethnicity. A New Concept Of The ''Long Liberation'' Provides A Framework For Understanding The Continuing Influence Of The Liberation In Post-War France Where Scientific Planning Came To The Fore But Whose Exponents Were Profoundly Imbued With Reductive Beliefs About Jews And Women That Were Familiar During Vichy.