Journal of Social History, June 22nd, 1998
By Anne-Marie Sohn (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996.1,095pp.).
In this published version of her these d'Etat, written under the supervision of Maurice Agulhon, the historian Anne-Marie Sohn undertakes a difficult task. Her subject is the domestic life of women in the Third Republic, and her challenge, to historicize elements of female identity - housewife, mother, wife - that have more often than not been seen as transcending time. An historian examining such a topic must begin at the beginning - by proving its worthiness as a subject of historical study. In addition, to historiciz...
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