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- Title
French Catholics, Women, and the Home: The Founding Generation of the Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne féminine.
- Authors
Newsome, W. Brian
- Abstract
In 1928 a group of young Parisian working women, guided by Father Georges Guérin, established a Catholic youth group called the Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne féminine. This study examines the ideas of the founding generation of the so-called Jocists on women and the home; the ways in which these conceptions were rooted in religious assumptions about women and domestic space; the evolution of these positions through the Ligue ouvrière chrétienne féminine and the Mouvement populaire des familles (adult organizations that evolved from the youth group); and the effect of these ideas on the shape of domestic space in France. From this investigation emerges a portrait of conflicted individuals and organizations advocating ideas that were sometimes conservative, sometimes liberal, often contradictory, but all rooted in Catholic social doctrine. This story enriches our understanding of the Catholic Left, of which these associations became an integral part, and the impact that these groups had on France.
- Subjects
FRANCE; FRENCH Catholics; WOMEN; SOCIAL conditions of women; CHURCH &; state; CATHOLIC women; HOUSING; SOCIAL classes; WORKING class; RELIGION &; politics; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, 2011, Vol 37, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
0315-7997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/hrrh.2011.370102