Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1: The Hypnotic Power of Punishment
1. Writers of the Defeat in Search of Eternity
2. The Church and Feminine Contrition
3. The Demographic Sin
Part 2: The Culture of Sacrifice
4. Violence and State Propaganda
5. Heritage and Incarnations of Catholic Feminine Culture
6. Family Imperialism and Feminine Subjection
Part 3: Biological Order and Social Order
7. “Natural” Hierarchies: Sexual Predestination and Social Predestination
8. Control of Bodies
Conclusion
Notes
Index

About the Author

Francine Muel-Dreyfus is Director of Studies at the Centre for European Sociology, School for the Study of Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris.
Kathleen A. Johnson is a professional translator who holds a Ph.D in French literature from the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews

"This is an outstanding book-historical sociology and social history at its most original. Richly documented and drawing on a wide range of materials to produce the most incisive reading I've seen of this moment in French history, Vichy and the Eternal Feminine is a model for historical studies of the formation and construction of social and political identity." - Joan Scott, author of Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man