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Article: Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: A Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2004
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Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: A Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender. By Francine Muel-Dreyfus. Translated by Kathleen A. Johnson. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2001. 387 pp. $21.95).
Vichy and the Eternal Feminine, the translation of a book published in France in 1996, argues that the French defeat of June 1940, which led to the overthrow of the Third Republic in favor of the National Revolution led by Marshal Philippe Petain at Vichy, also facilitated the emergence of an "eternal feminine" myth promoted by the Marshal and his supporters. In this myth, the vision of "woman" in her everlasting domestic sphere was posited as the ...