Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca J. Pulju is an assistant professor of history at Kent State University in Ohio. Her work has been published in the Journal of Women's History and the Proceedings of the Western Society for French History. Professor Pulju's research has been supported by funding from the University of Iowa and Kent State University, as well as a travel grant from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History. Klappentext Examines the emergence of a citizen consumer role for women during postwar modernization and reconstruction in France. Zusammenfassung Examines the emergence of a citizen consumer role for women during postwar modernization and reconstruction in France! integrating the history of economic modernization with that of women and the family. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Consumers for the nation: women, politics, and citizenship; 2. The productivity drive in the home and gaining comfort on credit; 3. For better and for worse: marriage and family in the consumer society; 4. 'Can a man with a refrigerator make a revolution?': redefining class in the postwar years; 5. The salon des arts ménagers: learning to consume in postwar France; Epilogue.

Klappentext

Examines the emergence of a citizen consumer role for women during postwar modernization and reconstruction in France.

Inhalt

Introduction; 1. Consumers for the nation: women, politics, and citizenship; 2. The productivity drive in the home and gaining comfort on credit; 3. For better and for worse: marriage and family in the consumer society; 4. 'Can a man with a refrigerator make a revolution?': redefining class in the postwar years; 5. The salon des arts ménagers: learning to consume in postwar France; Epilogue.