Julie LE GAC

The holder of an agrégation in history and a former student of the École normale supérieure de Cachan, Julie Le Gac is Associate Professor at the university Paris Nanterre (Institut des sciences sociales du politique). Her research focuses on the violence of war, gender relations during war, and the psychiatry of war. She is notably the author of Vaincre sans gloire. Le corps expéditionnaire français en Italie (novembre 1942-juillet 1944) (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013); La France en chiffres de 1870 à nos jours (Paris: Perrin, 2015) ; L’Europe des femmes. Recueil européen en histoire des femmes et du genre xviiie-xxie siècles (Paris: Perrin, 2017, with Fabrice Virgili) ; and Combattants irréguliers, special issue, 20&21. Revue d’histoire, n° 141, janvier 2019 (with Raphaëlle Branche).

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French woman and Sikhs: A French woman pins a flower on the tunic of a Sikh soldier marching past, during the First World War
French woman and Sikhs: A French woman pins a flower on the tunic of a Sikh soldier marching past, during the First World War. Source : Imperial War Museum, IWM Q 70214
Gender and Europe

Martial Races

Julie LE GAC
Statue erected in Gallipoli (1922) in honour of Corporal Seyit, hero of the Turkish army
Gender and Europe
Wars and memories

War and Virility

Julie LE GAC
Soviet partisans during World War Two
Gender and Europe
Wars and memories

The Feminization of European Armies

Élodie JAUNEAU
Julie LE GAC
Yannick RIPA
Fabrice VIRGILI

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