History, Memory and Trauma in Photography of the Tondues: Visuality of the Vichy Past through the Silent Image of Women

TitleHistory, Memory and Trauma in Photography of the Tondues: Visuality of the Vichy Past through the Silent Image of Women
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsAlison M. Moore
JournalGender & History
Volume17
Issue3
Pagination657-681
ISSN09535233
Abstract

Discusses the reproduction and contextualization and captioning of photographs featuring tondues during the French Occupation of and Liberation from German forces. Description of the photographs of tondues, a term used to define French women targeted as collaborators and whose heads were shaven in rituals of public disgrace; Views of intellectual Susan Sontag on the photographs; Reasons behind the dominant existence of photographs depicting shaven-headed women than men.

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DOI10.1111/j.0953-5233.2005.00400.x
Short TitleHistory, Memory and Trauma in Photography of the Tondues