Women in France since 1789: the meanings of difference

Introduction : the French Revolution and gender politics : creating a world of difference

Elite women

Urban working women

Peasant women

Women, politics and citizenship, 1814-1852

Women and the creation of republican France, 1852-1914

"New women" in the era of the Great War, 1890s-1920s

Taking sides : women in the 1930s

Vichy France : reviving the "natural woman," 1940-1944

From the liberation to "women's liberation," 1945-1975

The politics of "women's place" since 1975

Conclusion : equality and "difference" : women's lives from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.