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Book SynopsisThe state's policy with regard to fathers and fatherhood had a great impact on concepts of citizenship and gender in France in the era of the two World Wars. Drawing on new material that has only recently become available from the archives of the...
Trade ReviewKristen Stromberg Childers complements existing work on the significance of gender in the creation and elaboration of welfare states by turning readers' attention from women to men, from mothers to fathers, and from argument over the meaning of maternity to arguments over the meaning of paternity.... Besides interesting modern French historians, the book should be useful for comparative historians of welfare, of war and peace, and of the reality and representation of men's and women's lives under fascist, authoritarian, or totalitarian regimes.
-- Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester * American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsPaternity, law, and politics in the Third Republic; Icons of the pere de famille; Building on the family; Modelling the new man; Bringing social reform home.
