There Are Only Good Mothers
The Ideological Work of Women's Fertility in France before World War I
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940193 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua H Cole (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 639-639 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286639 |
| OpenAlex | W2328902352 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Woman, wife, mother, nature. In the decades before 1914, the declining birthrate in France brought these four terms to the forefront of an intense controversy.' ForJules Simon, senator for life in the French Third Republic from 1875 to 1896, the connections between these four words were both unambiguous and yet, somehow disturbing. Good and bad wives, yes, he seemed to say, but not bad mothers, surely. A bad mother would not be a mother at all, perhaps not really a woman -how would we classify her? Simon's willful lack of comprehension, expressed in the
Archaeology · Fertility · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Women's work · Work (physics · World War II · Demography · Engineering · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2023 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |