Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: A Contribution to a Political Sociology of GenderIn this nuanced history of occupied France, Francine Muel Dreyfus presents a powerful examination of the political and social construction of gender under the Vichy regime. Arguing that the regime used symbolic violence to reshape a liberal culture once based on individual rights into one of deference to hierarchical authority, Muel Dreyfus shows how Vichy invoked theories of "natural" gender inequality and "eternal" opposition between the masculine