Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France by Fabrice Virgili

Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France

Fabrice Virgili

384 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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At the end of World War II, over 20,000 French people accused of collaboration with Germany endured a particularly humiliating act of revenge: their heads were shaved in public. Nearly all those punished were women. This episode in French history ...

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