Books

This book focusses on the many upheavals ordinary men and women faced during the First World War and the tensions between old and new ideals. Themes as mobilisation, violence, work and the care for the wounded, intimacy and family life, charity and resistance are approached in an innovatory way.

In 1919, an official organisation for the protection of young children is established : l’Œuvre nationale de l’enfance.
This book turns to the history of this vast educative movement that particularly aims to train women in their mother roles.

The book traces the militant track of Marijke Van Hemeldonck, reveals which strategies the women’s movement used to achieve change and how international organisations intervened in the process.

On the basis of Jeanne Vercheval’s militant actions, this book examines the feminism of the nineteen-seventies and the feminist demands that, forty years later, are still alive.

This book gives an overview of Miet Smet’s career, with the emphasis on her realisations concerning the equality of women and men.

The richly illustrated book ‘Boys and girls… an (un)known destination?’ shows how the ideas about masculinity and femininity evolved in Belgium in the last two centuries. And together with these ideas the real life of men and women changed: the meaning of fatherhood and motherhood, toys and clothes, visions on education and work.

Prof. Eliane Gubin, with the assistance Catherine Jacques (ULB), wrote an inspired biography on Eliane Vogel-Polsky, based on the above-mentioned interviews. She brings a clear picture of the bigger stages on Vogel-Polsky’s track, and of her judicial line of thought.