22 décembre 2012
Fabrice Melka, « French Women in Indochina (1897-1930) », Femmes, genre, colonisations, ID : 10670/1.0d3rtr
Following the establishment of the Société d’émigration des femmes françaises (1897), a large body of emigration promotional literature made its appearance in the métropole to encourage metropolitan women to move to the empire outposts as it was believed that rare were those who were willing to leave the mother country. In these writings the colonies were said to have a great need for white women, in particular the unmarried ones, who would find there plenty of opportunities for work and matr...