This essay explores Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein's box-office success La Maternelle and their lesser-known Maternité in the context of interwar debates over women's roles in society. Reflecting natalist-familialist conceptions of motherhood and femininity, the films magnified three pervasive cultural icons in French social and political discourse: the monstrous, childless "modern woman," the exalted mother, and the "single woman" who fell somewhere in the middle. As both products and vehicles of these tropes, La Maternelle and Maternité not only illustrate how popular cinema disseminated and justified certain value-laden assumptions about female identity in the late 1920s and early 1930s; they also reveal the limitations of French feminism and socially-engaged, progressive art of the period.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Childless
The Politics of Female Identity in Maternité (1929) and La Maternelle (1933)
Cheryl A. Koos
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2009
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- 3–20
Stanley Chojnacki
Renaissance Italy , trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1985), 117–118. First published as “La ‘mère cruelle’: Maternité, veuvage et dot dans la Florence des XIV-XV siècles,” Annales: Économies, sociétés, civilisations 38, no
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- 104–118
Enfants du maquis en Algérie
Un héritage explosif
Abderrahmane Moussaoui
religion contre l’avortement peut paraître naturelle, celle des femmes est plus complexe et délicate à expliquer. Certaines voix, au nom de la maternité, requièrent l’interdiction de l’avortement. Après moult hésitations, le Haut Conseil islamique 14
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- 20–37
Family Life in Tunisia after the Revolution of 2011
Two Women and Two Men in a Changing Time
Irene Maffi
), ‘ Tunisia’s Women: Partners in Revolution ’, Journal of North African Studies 19 , no. 2 : 186 – 199 . 10.1080/13629387.2013.870424 Le Bris , A. ( 2009 ), La maternité interdite: être mère sans être épouse en Tunisie entre déni et “normification
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- 60–77
Pascale Molinier
. Cette promotion du constructionnisme associée à celle d’un effacement des différences de genre s’accompagne d’une dévaluation de la « Nature » dont la pensée beauvoirienne est l’un des fleurons (voir notamment son rejet de la maternité). D’où un
Elizabeth C. Macknight
patrie et de la famille”: femmes catholiques et maternité sous la III République (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2000); Bruno Dumons, Les Dames de la Ligue des femmes françaises (1901–1914) (Paris: Cerf, 2006). 5 John K. Huckaby, “Roman Catholic Reaction to the
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- 18–41