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Femeile, Marele Război şi metamorfozarea civilizaţiei franceze (1914-1918)
Women, the Great War and the methamorphosis of French Civilisation [1914-1918]

Author(s): Mirela Chioveanu
Subject(s): History
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: The Great War; women; feminism; emancipation; pacifism; trauma; civilizational upheaval.

Summary/Abstract: The present study investigates the participation of French women at war as reflected in documents, media, diaries. Women emancipation, pacifism, socialism, feminism, are but a few issues introduced with this study. The main purpose was to analyze the impact of interventionist state policies on women life in France, and to reveal its social, political and cultural outcomes that altogether generated the upheaval of the French Civilization.

  • Issue Year: 11/2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 423-445
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Romanian
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