Title Fast cars, clean bodies : decolonization and the reordering of French culture / Kristin Ross

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1995] ©1995

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Description x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents 1. La Belle Americaine. Car History. Moving Pictures. Cars, Couples, and Careers -- 2. Hygiene and Modernization. Housekeeping. Keeping House -- 3. Couples. The Great Divorce. The Making of the New French Middle Class. Neobourgeois Space -- 4. New Men. New Men and the Death of Man. Cadres. Immobile Time Notes "An October book." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-250), filmography (pages [251]-253), and index Subject Decolonization -- France -- History -- 20th century. Technology -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century. Popular culture -- France -- History -- 20th century. Racism -- France. French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Authors, French -- 20th century -- Political and social views. SUBJECT France -- Civilization -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051194 France -- Civilization -- American influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051195 LC no. 94017815 ISBN 0262181614

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