Abstract:

In studying French women resistors, scholars have largely fought the erasure of their contributions from the record. I revisit résistante stories as narratives about clothing that mark the specificity of female resistance as well as changes in gender identity. First, I explore how women weaponized their clothing. During the war they used their dresses, underwear, and jackets to hide Resistance documents, carry bombs, and escape enemy notice. Such resistance continued to occur after women partisans were deported to Ravensbrück, a Nazi detention camp for female political prisoners. Here again clothing became an instrument of resistance. Second, I show how the sartorial choices of résistantes provide crucial evidence of their changing selves. How these women chose to clothe their bodies can help us trace how they changed as a result of their wartime activism. Résistantes' shifting views of their clothing registered profound alienation and confusion about their gendered selves.

摘要：

在研究法国女性抵抗者时，学者们基本上都在努力争取从记录中抹去她们的贡献。我重新审视抵抗故事，将其视为关于服装的叙事，标志着女性抵抗的特殊性以及性别认同的变化。首先，我探讨女性如何将她们的服装武器化。战争期间，她们用裙子、内衣和夹克来隐藏抵抗运动文件、携带炸弹并逃避敌人的注意。在女游击队员被驱逐到纳粹女性政治犯拘留营拉文斯布吕克后，这种抵抗继续发生。在这里，衣服再次成为抵抗的工具。其次，我展示了抵抗者的着装选择如何为他们不断变化的自我提供重要证据。这些女性如何选择穿衣可以帮助我们追踪她们因战时激进主义而发生的变化。抵抗者对服装看法的转变表明了他们对性别自我的深刻疏离和困惑。