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Article: Jews and Gender in Liberation France.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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Jews and Gender in Liberation France, by K.H. Adler. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 273 pp. $60.00 US (cloth).
K.H. Adler has written an important book that offers readers a stimulating evaluation of the construction of national identity in France after its liberation in August 1944. As pan of the Cambridge series "Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare," this work examines both individual experience of and social thought about "Frenchness" in the aftermath of the Second World War. Through an examination of how women and Jews were considered in the context of a ...