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Sur le front des sexes: un combat douteux
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The conclusions of a recent colloquium on women and war organized by the Center for European Studies at Harvard University shake up the conventional wisdom that the 20th century wars helped in the emancipation of women as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
On the sex front, Michelle Perrot ; The conclusions of a recent colloquium on « Women and War » organized by the Center for European Studies at Harvard University shake up the conventional wisdom that the 20th century wars helped in the emancipation of women. Two world conflicts certainly gave them « man's » work and greater individual freedom. But such changes hardly altered the inherited sexual roles : as nurses or Resistance flghters, factory workers or union activists, women are subjected to the power of man in war as in peace time. Wars accelerated some changes and retarded others. Contradictory in their impact, they helped the victory of feminist ideas, but announced the men's revenge.read more
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Poor Ottoman Turkish women during World War I : women’s experiences and politics in everyday life, 1914-1923
TL;DR: The authors examined the social impact of World War I in the Ottoman Empire on ordinary poor Turkish women and their everyday response to the adverse wartime conditions and the state policies concerning them based on new archival sources giving detailed information about the voice, experience and agency of these women.
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Les conséquences du droit de vote des femmes dans l'entre-deux guerres en Angleterre
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«Women and wars»: aspects of an heterogeneous subject
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