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- Title
Vichy's Mass Firing of Women Teachers of Colour in the French Caribbean and its Consequences<sup>1</sup>.
- Authors
Jennings, Eric; Palmiste, Clara
- Abstract
This article examines the application to Martinique and Guadeloupe of Vichy's sexist law of 11 October 1940, relating to the employment of women and its impact on female teachers. We argue that Vichy showed greater zeal in applying the new regime's patriarchal law on women's work in the Caribbean than in mainland France. We examine in detail the 11 October 1940 law and the modalities of its application in the metropole and in the Caribbean, its manipulation by various actors and the arguments mobilized over the course of its promulgation in a West Indian context. Next, we consider to what degree female Caribbean teachers were impacted by these measures and analyse some of the underlying causes for their dismissal. We highlight the broader social and administrative transformations into which this particular purge fitted. Finally, we underscore the agency of fired schoolteachers as well as their resilience.
- Subjects
MARTINIQUE; GUADELOUPE; WOMEN teachers; DISMISSAL of employees; WOMEN'S employment; PATRIARCHY; FRENCH colonies; GERMAN occupation of France, 1940-1945; CARIBBEAN history, 1810-1945
- Publication
Gender & History, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 3, p1012
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.12628