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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Main Author: Florence Renucci
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Clio et Themis 2022-05-01
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.
ISSN:2105-0929