Quand les voyages font la juriste de combat
At the crossroads of historical method and gender studies, this article focuses on the travels of the jurist and missionary Sr Marie-André du Sacré-Cœur in West Africa in the 1930s. It aims to demonstrate the role of the travels in the construction of a feminist struggle which will take the form of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Association Clio et Themis
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Clio@Themis |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cliothemis/2206 |
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| Summary: | At the crossroads of historical method and gender studies, this article focuses on the travels of the jurist and missionary Sr Marie-André du Sacré-Cœur in West Africa in the 1930s. It aims to demonstrate the role of the travels in the construction of a feminist struggle which will take the form of a legal reform, the “Mandel decree” of 15 june 1939. The text of the this decree was written by Sr Marie-André herself, illustrating the unexpected influence of Catholicism on the Republican law of the 1930s. |
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| ISSN: | 2105-0929 |