'A major achievement ... In exploring gender it is a challenge to all historians.' - Liberations - and Resistance

• Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, INTRODUCTION: WRITING ABOUT INTER-WAR FRANCE: THE TEXTBOOK AS TEXT, 1 DEMOGRAPHY AND ITS DISCONTENTS, 2 FROM KINDERGARTEN TO YOUTH HOSTEL: GROWING UP BETWEEN THE WARS, 3 ‘A SLIP OF A GIRL CAN FLY IT’: THE FALSE PROMISES OF AVIATION, 4 WHAT DID PEOPLE DO ALL DAY? THE SEXUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR IN FRANCE BETWEEN THE WARS, 5 FROM THE DEPRESSION TO THE STRIKES: OUVRIERS AND OUVRIÈRES, 6 THE TRUCE BETWEEN THE SEXES? THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL INTERVENTION FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE POPULAR FRONT, 7 THE PERMEABILITY OF PUBLIC LIFE: MAINSTREAM AND ALTERNATIVE POLITICS, 8 WAR AND PEACE: ASSENT AND DISSENT, 9 RIGHTS AND THE REPUBLIC: THE INTER-WAR YEARS AS ANTECHAMBER TO DEMOCRACY?, CONCLUSION, Notes, Sources and bibliography, Chronology, Index