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Marianne or Germania? - Nationalizing Women in Alsace, 1870-1946 (Hardcover)
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Marianne or Germania? - Nationalizing Women in Alsace, 1870-1946 (Hardcover)
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Marianne or Germania is the first comprehensive study of modern
Alsatian history using gender as a category of historical analysis,
and the first to record the experiences of the region's women from
1870 to 1946. Relying on an extensive array of documentary, visual
and literary material, national and regional publications, oral
testimonies, and previously unused archival sources gathered in
France, Germany, and Britain, the book contributes to the growing
literature on the relationship between gender, the nation and
citizenship, and between nationalism and feminism. It does so by
focusing on the roles, both passive and active, that women played
in the process of German and French nation-building in Alsace.
The work also critiques and corrects the long-held assumptions that
Alsatian women were the preservers, after 1871, of a French
national heritage in the region, and that women were neglected or
disregarded by policy-makers concerned with the consolidation of
German, and later French, loyalties. Women were in fact seen as
important agents of nation-formation and treated as such. In
addition, all the categories of social action implicated in the
nation-building process - confession, education, socialization, the
public sphere, the domestic setting, the iconography of regional
and national belonging - were themselves gendered. Thus
nation-building projects impacted asymmetrically on men and women,
with far-reaching consequences. Having been 'nationalized' through
different 'rounds of restructuring' than men, the women of Alsace
were, and continue to be, excluded from national and regional
histories, as well as from public memory and official
commemoration. Marianne or Germania questions, and ultimately
challenges, these practices.
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