Die Umerziehung der Deutschen: Jugend und Schule unter den Siegermachten des Zweiten Weltkriegs, 1945-1955

Abstract

History of Education Quarterly between the categories of "secular" and "religious." In fact, the category was neither imprecise nor fluid. It did not refer only to the training a teacher received: those classified "religious" were members of Roman Catholic congregations. Until the disbanding of "unauthorized" congregations in the early twentieth century, when large numbers of "religious" women became "secular" teachers, an individual woman was unlikely to move back and forth between those classifications. Overall, however, the work draws attention to a neglected aspect of French education and is valuable for its attempts to bring into focus the lives of the women whose work shaped education for women in nineteenth-century France.