K. H. Adler

Reading national identity: gender and "prostitution" during the Occupation.

Abstract The reconstruction of France at the end of the Second World War began, paradoxically, long before the Liberation. This article explores how certain categories of people were deemed appropriate for discursive inclusion in the ‘new’ nation by examining ideas about prostitution as they appeared in the clandestine press. The representation of the prostitute is related to the difficult return of female volunteer workers from Germany in the summer of 1944. This article disentangles the views of such women as simultaneously victims and collaborators and discusses the complex ways in which national belonging was constructed via gender.

Homes and Homecomings: Gendered Histories of Domesticity and Return

Gendered Histories of Domesticity and Return H om es nd H om ecom igs Edited by K. H. Adler and Carrie Hamilton E dited by A dler nd H am iton Feminist historians have long analysed the constructions and meanings of home, whether as domestic space or the place of belonging and longing. This book brings together these dimensions, and in doing so, provides inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings.

Secret Tourists in the City of their Birth: Jewish Women in Occupied Paris

This article examines the uncertain relationships between religion, politics and the French republic via shifts within constructions of what was thought an appropriate population for France at the end of the German occupation. The first part sets out some of the historical terrain as it pertained to Jews, women and the non-French. The second section explores the writings of Jewish women resisters to suggest that the positions of those who were politically engaged were more complex and varied than has sometimes been implied. Through an investigation of the meaning of ‘home’ it aims to understand how those varieties were articulated and experienced. Moreover, it seeks to challenge contemporary resister and later historiographic assumptions about differences between immigrant and French-born Jews.