In Third Republic France (1870-1940), the directrice of a normal school (école normale) for training women teachers was the most important woman representative

A magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around the 'woman question' during the French Third Republic.

A revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past, focused on contesting and defending masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men.

The National Book Award–winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII

This history of professional women in positions of administrative responsibility illuminates women's changing relationship to the public sphere in France since