HIST 1095 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Total War, Fordism, Gender Identity
28 Jan 2017
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Paris and london in an age of total war. Continuities: the process of modernization": class, gender, sexuality and popular culture; the importance of state action and capitalism. Reading schedule: this week, maza introduction; next week, read maza, chapter 1 and 2. 31 january, short analytical essay due, on maza, chapter 7. 18 years" old who murdered he parents in paris, 1933 (she succeeded in killing her father). The book is about real life crime story and the book is less about the mystery of murder itself, its more about why she did it and who she was. It"s a story about why this crime got so much of media attention. 1933 big year in europe hitler comes to power. This story was largely forgotten, but at the time it gathered an enormous amount of attention. Viollete comes to represent urban anxieties of period.
