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100 1 0 _aEfthymiou, Loukia
_eauthor
700 1 0 _a Garnier, Lucy
_eauthor
245 0 0 _aThe communist cult of the female leader
260 _c2023.
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520 _aThis article considers the rituals and ceremonies celebrating the French pro-communist activist, Eugénie Cotton, president of the Union des Femmes Françaises (UFF, Union of French Women) and of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), and the way Cotton was elevated to the rank of universal authority, exemplifying virtues not unrelated to the model of the Virgin Mary. This exploration of the enactment of the female version of the cult of the leader in the communist world during the Cold War contrasts with the masculine focus of the substantial historiographical production of the last twenty years on this topic. The paper examines in particular the circumstances that gave birth to the “Cotton cult”, the key moments in its evolution, the mechanisms of its diffusion and the gender shifts in the process of its invention.
690 _aCold War
690 _acult of the leader
690 _aEugénie Cotton
690 _apacifism
690 _aUFF
690 _aWIDF
786 0 _nClio. Women, Gender, History | o 57 | 1 | 2023-06-07 | p. 159-170 | 1252-7017
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-clio-women-gender-history-2023-1-page-159?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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