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- Title
Between metropole and colony: Bordels militaires de campagne in colonial Morocco and France in the twentieth century.
- Authors
Phipps, Catherine
- Abstract
Bordels militaires de campagne (BMCs) were French military brothels in North Africa under colonial occupation. This system was extended to metropolitan France during the First and Second World Wars due to fears of sexual violence or consensual relationships between Moroccan men and French women. Even after brothels were banned in metropolitan France in 1946, French military authorities illegally brought hundreds of Moroccan women to France to work in BMC s because of the Moroccan soldiers still present in the metropole. With poor living conditions, underage labour and a high workload, French military brothels exploited Moroccan women to theoretically 'protect' European women against sexual violence from Moroccan men. This was based on a racialized understanding of Moroccan masculinity. This article uses the experiences of these Moroccan women and details of the sex work system in Morocco to understand the systemic cruelty behind the operation of these French military brothels.
- Subjects
FRANCE; MOROCCO; TWENTIETH century; UNDERAGE drinking; WORLD War II; VIOLENCE against women; FRENCH people; SEXUAL assault; METROPOLITAN areas
- Publication
French History, 2023, Vol 37, Issue 3, p254
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crad016