Vichy France and Everyday Life : Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939-1945.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part One Coping and Helping in Wartime France -- 1 Children and Play in Occupied France -- The weight of the regime and the war: a playful and mobilizing universe -- A militarization of play? -- New kinds of play -- Play practices as a refl ection of everyday life -- Playing in wartime, but not playing at war: happiness as well as sorrow -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Coping in the Classroom: Adapting Schools to Wartime -- Facing the Occupation -- Facing Vichy and its reforms -- Facing children's hunger -- Resisting the times -- Notes -- 3 Reconstructing the Daily Life of a Lyonnaise Family -- Writing history collaboratively -- Separation: a planned but sorrowful experience -- A family little affected by shortages -- From adaptation to transgression -- The sudden loss of the family's rock: the bombardment of 26 May 1944 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 The Daily Lives of French Railway Workers -- Daily life and daily work during the Second World War: memories and narratives of railway workers5 -- A slice of twentieth-century history -- In between wars -- Home and work during the Occupation -- The violence of liberation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Helping the Most Needy: The Role of the Secours National -- To the rescue of the French population -- To the rescue of the Vichy regime -- A propaganda tool -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 The American Friends Service Committee and Wartime Aid to Families -- The AFSC in France -- The Home Colony programme -- Shame and sociability -- Notes -- 7 Urban Lives, Rural Lives and Children's Evacuation -- Social confrontations -- Psychological risks -- Locating the messiness of everyday life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part Two Confrontation and Challenge in Wartime France.

8 Colonial Prisoners of War and French Civilians -- Capture and defeat -- Imprisonment and interaction -- Patriotic maternalism, colonial paternalism -- Solidarity and escape -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Wehrmacht Brothels, Prostitution and Venereal Desire -- Balancing the 'urges' of venereal desire and the threat of venereal disease -- Managing Wehrmacht brothels in the French southwest -- Sex work: control, danger and retaliation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 Madeleine Blaess: An Emotional History of a Long Liberation -- Madeleine's long liberation -- From the Normandy landings to the Paris insurrection -- Intensifying crisis -- The arrival of the Allies -- Negative Liberation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 Counter-Revolution? Resisting Vichy and the National Revolution -- Defining the everyday and the political -- Combating hegemony -- Combating collaboration and the Vichy state -- Beyond the screen? Conclusion -- Notes -- 12 Vichy Cinema and the Everyday -- Newsreel -- André Robert and documentary -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 13 Defining Everyday Frenchness under Vichy -- Documentary film and propaganda -- Experiences of food in everyday life -- Nourrir la France and the selective definition of the everyday -- Conclusion: the fiction of documentary in wartime France -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

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