2014
DOI: 10.3917/rdn.404.0157
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Les « femmes à Boches » en Belgique et en France occupée (1914-1918)

Abstract: En Belgique et en France occupées, la guerre vécue par les femmes n’a pas été uniquement celle d’une résistance patriotique mise en avant par la mémoire collective. Des dizaines de milliers d’entre elles ont connu des relations charnelles avec l’occupant. La prostitution a connu un essor considérable dans les grandes villes ainsi que dans la zone des Étapes. Pour combattre la propagation des maladies vénériennes, les autorités allemandes ont mis en place un système de contrôle et de traitement des maladies, au… Show more

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“…4 Emmanuel Debruyne, in his extensive study of sexual relations with Germans across occupied France and Belgium, draws on my terms to state that 'The fact of a woman having sexual relations with the occupier constituted, as it were, "mauvaise conduite" par excellence. ' 5 Sexual relations with the Germans were viewed as a moral crime, a transgression of what Le Naour calls 'the patriotic taboo' , 6 and of what Salson calls 'patriotic conformity' . 7 Studying sexual behaviour is notoriously difficult, but critical use of sources allows for some conclusions to be drawn.…”
Section: Sexual Misconductmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…4 Emmanuel Debruyne, in his extensive study of sexual relations with Germans across occupied France and Belgium, draws on my terms to state that 'The fact of a woman having sexual relations with the occupier constituted, as it were, "mauvaise conduite" par excellence. ' 5 Sexual relations with the Germans were viewed as a moral crime, a transgression of what Le Naour calls 'the patriotic taboo' , 6 and of what Salson calls 'patriotic conformity' . 7 Studying sexual behaviour is notoriously difficult, but critical use of sources allows for some conclusions to be drawn.…”
Section: Sexual Misconductmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The rise in illegitimate births during the war in certain small localities close to the front, like Sains-Richaumont in the Aisne department of northern France, offers a clue to the frequency of sexual relations between local women and German soldiers that slipped through the monitoring system. 38 It seems that, at least at the local level, occupying authorities considered submitting the whole female population (aged fifteen to fifty-five) of French localities in the army zone to periodic medical examinations. 39 Also, during the deportations from Lille in April 1916, thousands of women among the deported contingent underwent a forced medical examination, accompanied by violence against those refusing.…”
Section: Women With No Rightsmentioning
confidence: 99%