When the Republic Came for the Nuns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miranda Sachs (0000-0002-7343-4286, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 423-451 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00161071-7558329 |
| OpenAlex | W2968613668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
During its first decades the Third Republic's relationship with the Catholic Church soured. While the Republic notoriously recast itself as a secular regime through removing clerics from the classroom, laicization also drove the development of public welfare. By examining the case of ouvroirs, charitable ateliers run by female religious orders to train and employ young women, this article explores the consequences of new ideas about welfare for working-class girlhood. In the context of rising anticlericalism, the Republic mobilized labor law and sent labor inspectors to scrutinize the nuns' treatment of their charges. The Republic's efforts to regulate these spaces represent a transformation in its treatment of girlhood, a recognition that girls' care could not be left to the private sphere. Instead, not only was it the Republic's responsibility to protect these girls, but this protection had a larger, societal imperative. Durant ses premières décennies, les relations entre la Troisième République et l'Eglise catholique se détérioraient. Si l'écartement du clergé des salles de classe est un exemple notoire de la laïcisation républicaine, l'avènement de l'assistance sociale n'en est pas moins un. En examinant le cas des « ouvroirs », ces ateliers dirigés par des religieuses afin de former et employer des jeunes filles, cet article s'intéresse aux conséquences des conceptions nouvelles de l'assistance sociale pour les filles de la classe ouvrière. Alors que l'anticléricalisme devient de plus en plus présent, la République fait appel aux lois sur le travail et demande aux inspecteurs de vérifier le bon fonctionnement des actions entreprises par les religieuses. Cet effort croissant de la République pour réglementer ces locaux marque un refus de laisser le sort des jeunes filles à la sphère privée ainsi qu'une transformation de la politique sur l'enfance. Quand la République accepte la responsabilité de protéger ces filles des ouvroirs, la protection de l'enfance devient un devoir politique
Art · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Humanities · Political science · Sociology · The Republic · Theology · Welfare · European Political History Analysis · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
Village Bells
Women, Work, and the French State
Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914.
Abandoned Children
Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State
The Politics of Women's Work
Poor and Pregnant in Paris
Consommateurs engagés à la Belle Époque
On Learning Gender Roles During Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France
Au service de l'eglise, de la patrie et de la famille'
Schooling for the People
Retrograde or modern? Unveiling the teaching nun in nineteenth‐century France
The Catholic Church and the Formation of the Industrial Labour Force in Nineteenth-Century France
The Welfare State in France, 1870-1914
Medicine and Charity before the Welfare State
Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France
Histoire de la formation des ouvriers (1789-1984)
Les voltigeurs de la Republique. L'inspection du travail en France jusqu'en 1914
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |