Conscription, family, and the modern state : a comparative study of France and the United States / by Geva, Dorit, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Tracing Similarities and Differences -- PART I CONSCRIPTION, FAMILIAL AUTHORITY, AND STATE MODERNITY IN MODERN FRANCE -- 1 Nationalized Coercion, Familial Authority, and the Père de Famille in Nineteenth-Century France -- Patriarchal Power and Familial Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Era -- Napoleonic Reforms and Intensification of Paternal Power -- Napoleonic Reform, Conscription, and the Contradictions between State and Paternal Authority -- Nineteenth Century Continuities -- 2 Conscription, Pronatalism, and Decline of Familial Sovereignty in the Early Third Republic -- The French Third Republic: A Laboratory for French Republicanism -- Gender in the Early Third Republic: Republicanism, Depopulation, and the Père de Famille -- The Père de Famille -- The Third Republic and the Nation in Arms -- The 1905 Recruitment Law: Military Service Is "Equal for All" -- The Depopulation Crisis and the Challenge to Familial Authority -- Wartime Mobilization and Demobilization -- 3 The Famille Nombreuse versus the Security State in Interwar France -- Depopulation, Gender Backlash, and Familial Authority -- The Familles Nombreuses in Postwar Army Reform -- Depopulation Is War: The 1928 Recruitment Bill -- The Années Creuses and the Road to Total War -- Familial Authority and the Specter of Total War -- PART II THE DRAFT, FAMILIAL AUTHORITY, AND STATE MODERNITY IN THE UNITED STATES -- 4 Breadwinning, Selective Service, and the World War I Draft.…”
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