Weitz, Margaret Collins : Suffolk University / Harvard University
Margaret Collins Weitz is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Modern Languages at Suffolk University
in Boston, and is a Senior Affiliate at Harvard. She is the author of Femmes: Recent Writing on French Women, coeditor
of Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, and has written numerous articles about women in France.
Summary
Advance praise for Margaret Collin Weitz's Sisters in the Resistance.
"Women in the French Resistance is a key subject. Margaret Weitz has gathered personal testimonies that
are often moving, occasionally funny, and always fascinating. She has set them in an intelligible context that
helps us understand how all French people--men and women--experienced the Nazi occupation." --Robert Paxton,
Mellon Professor of Social Sciences, Columbia University, and author of Vichy: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-44.
"Balancing absorbing narrative and astute analysis, Margaret Collins Weitz has integrated the unsung achievements
of women into the history of the French Resistance." --Carole Fink, Professor of History, The Ohio State University,
and author of Marc Bloch: A Life in History.
"Fifty years after the end of World War II, Sisters in the Resistance renders homage to the courageous
women of the French Resistance. It is high time for their contributions to be fully acknowledged, and fortunate
indeed that they have found such a sympathetic, scholarly, and lucid chronicler in Margaret Collins Weitz."
--Marilyn Yalom, author of Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory.
Table of Contents
Women and the War-within-a-War.
France under German Occupation.
French Women under the Vichy Regime.
Organizing Resistance in France.
Resistance: A Family Affair.
Young and Alone.
War Is a Man's Affair.
Support Services: Women's Eternal Vocation.
Dangerous Liaisons.
Room and Board: Critical Concerns.
Choosing Roles.
Collaboration.
Conclusion: Women and the Legacy of the Resistance.
