Jews and Gender in Liberation France

List of illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the long liberation; 2. Narrating liberation; 3. Anticipating liberation: the gendered nation in print; 4. Limiting liberation: 'the French for France'; 5. Controlling liberation: Georges Mauco and a population fit for France; 6. Liberation in place: Jewish women in the city; 7. Conclusion; Notes, Bibliography; Index.

Karen Adler is Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Nottingham.

'Karen Adler has written an interestingly subversive book on the liberation of France ... This is a broadly researched and scholarly book ... lucid and passionate text.' History 'Jews and Gender in Liberation France offers a compelling and highly convincing account of the gendered and racialized structures of assimilationism in occupied and liberated France ... Adler's argument is persuasive, rooted in details analysis of a number of historical sources, and lucidly expressed.' French Studies