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Genre et pouvoir(s)

Engagements et revendications féminines en Ille-et-Vilaine de 1945 aux années soixante

Martine Cocaud
p. 85-101

Abstracts

This article describes the involvement and public actions of women in Ille-et-Vilaine (part of Brittany), a rural and catholic area, between 1945 and 1965. Women’s participation was low and rather discret, since the public action were very few. Yet their activities took different forms, depending on their rural or urban origin. In the towns, the women in small numbers joined women’s organizations (UFF, UFCS), or trade-unions which – though acknowledging the principle of equality between men and women stated in the Constitution – still conveyed a traditional image of woman. In these groups, women showed active concern for questions that were not especially feminist, such as the improvement of living conditions, pay rise, or peace in the world. In rural areas, the «Action catholique» groups (JACF, family organizations) managed to motivate young women to join them. These associations did not directly defend women’s rights, but led them to take part in debates and reflexions over their own conditions of life and encouraged them to set up collective projects adapted to rural life. At the end of the 1950s, all these associations (rural and urban) declined when new women’s groups appeared, defending more feminist themes, such as birth control and the right to have a job.

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Index terms

Chronologie:

XXe siècle

Noms de lieux:

Ille-et-Vilaine
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References

Bibliographical reference

Martine Cocaud, “Engagements et revendications féminines en Ille-et-Vilaine de 1945 aux années soixante”Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest, 108-2 | 2001, 85-101.

Electronic reference

Martine Cocaud, “Engagements et revendications féminines en Ille-et-Vilaine de 1945 aux années soixante”Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest [Online], 108-2 | 2001, Online since 20 June 2003, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/abpo/1735; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/abpo.1735

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About the author

Martine Cocaud

Maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine CRHISCO-Université Rennes 2

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