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First World War and the Expansion of Gender Equality: Focusing on Coeducation

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2016, (34), pp.85~111
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

JiYoung Moon 1

1숙명여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

In France, a discourse on coeducation started first with the introduction of the concept of Laïcité in the 18th century, that is the age of Enlightenment. By the French Revolution of 1789, the system of public education was established on the basis of laïcité and equality, but the principle of gender-segregated education remained intact for a long time. The First World War in the French history of coeducation corresponds to a kind of inflection point. Although the War did not completely liberate French women, it freed them somewhat from the double fetters of the inequality of ‘education’ and ‘labor’. In that respect, the War can be said to have acted as a catalyst in the expansion of coeducation based on gender equality. The purpose of this research is to examine how since the 19th century the coeducation movement based on gender equality could have been enlarged and developed in France and in the wake of the First World War. To this end, we first study the process of theorizing coeducational issues as a barometer of gender equality in the field of public opinion, with the combination of the idea of Laïcité and the feminist movement after the French Revolution. Next, we investigate the significance as well as the effect of change in women’s economic and social role on the expansion of gender equality and coeducation as a result of the First World War.

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