Wellesley College: Sarah Fishman Lecture

Sarah Fishman, of the University of Houston, will give a lecture titled, “Back to the Future: Women, Gender, and Family in France from Vichy to the Postwar” as part of the 40th anniversary commemorative lecture series for Wellesley College French House. Dr. Fishman, Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston, specializes in twentieth-century French history with an emphasis on gender and society. She has published two books exploring the social impact of World War II in France, We Will Wait about POW wives, and The Battle for Children about delinquent youth and juvenile justice during the war. Following women, families and children into the postwar, she published From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution in 2017. Currently she is completing a new book, Bridges to Feminism: Marcelle Auclair, Marcelle Ségal, and Women’s Magazines in Twentieth-Century France. Her talk will explore changing ideas about women, men, and family after World War II in France, not looking back from the present but starting with the wartime Vichy years and moving forward.