Les Femmes Sont-Elles Françaises, Oui ou Non? Education, Political Exclusion, and the Question of Women’s National Identity in France

Autor(en)

Sophie Pia Stieger

Abstrakt

In the long nineteenth century, public schooling and national curricula were established to create a sense of national belonging that went beyond legal citizenship. In this context, citizenship and nationhood were not only configured differently in different historical and local contexts, but also within the same national context along the lines of sexual difference. This article sketches the turbulent history of the French citoyenne in the nineteenth century. It discusses the ambivalent position of French women as citizens without (political) citizenship, being simultaneously included and excluded from the French nation. The leading question is how gendered ideas of citizenship manifested themselves in different educational strategies and what this meant for the fabrication of women’s national identity. After all, until the end of the century, public schooling was geared exclusively towards future male citizens, while girls’ education was mostly in the hands of the Catholic Church. As I intend to show, this led to gendered notions of what it meant to be French, which in turn affected the general debate over the catholic or secular identity of the French nation by adding a peculiar gendered dimension to the ideological battle between les deux Frances

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bildungswissenschaft

Seiten

69-80

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41762-7_6

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

503017 Geschichte der Pädagogik

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/bc0bd269-6e23-49df-8086-349fd5f5ac2e