Book 2014

French Women and the Empire

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 2014

Women, social conditions
Indochina, history
France, social conditions
Colonization
Women colonists
History
Women
Social conditions

The first book-length investigation of colonial gender politics in Third Republic France, using Indochina as a case study, charts women's experiences and activities to reveal a transformation in French views of empire: from colonial life as an exclusively male preserve to one where women's presence was seen as essential.