Sur le front des sexes : un combat douteux - article ; n°1 ; vol.3, pg 69-76

Michelle Perrot

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Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1984 - Volume 3 - Numéro 1 - Pages 69-76
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.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Publié par: VINGTIEME_SIECLE-_REVUE_D-HISTOIRE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1984
• Nombre de lectures: 19
• Langue: Français

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Michelle Perrot

Sur le front des sexes : un combat douteux

In: Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire. N°3, juillet 1984. pp. 69-76.

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.

Citer ce document / Cite this document :

Perrot Michelle. Sur le front des sexes : un combat douteux. In: Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire. N°3, juillet 1984. pp. 69-76.

doi : 10.3406/xxs.1984.1692

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