On Political Belief in France
Campbell, Caroline. Political Belief in France, 1927-1945: Gender, Empire, and Fascism in the Croix de Feu and Parti Social Français. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. eBook.
This is an outstanding work. Campbell argues that women were essential to the success of the Croix de Feu/PSF in mid-1930s France. In both metropolitan France and North Africa, women were political active in the “social sphere” as they did not have full citizenship rights. Yet, they did not have the same strength in North Africa as they did in France, and male settlers enacted a patriarchal, authoritarian, and racial system of power that can be fairly called fascist.