The politics of food and gender in Occupied Paris.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Schwartz, Paula
- Source
- Modern & Contemporary France. Feb99, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p35. 11p.
- Subject
- *FOOD supply
*PUBLIC demonstrations
*WOMEN
FRENCH history
- Language
- ISSN
- 0963-9489
Examines the origins, development and meaning of women's mobilization around problems of food scarcity and supply during the German occupation in France from 1940-1945. Indication that food issues dominated the daily life of French men and women; Focus on the summer of 1942 on reports that women's demonstrations for food constituted a 'second front.'