Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power

Charlotte Faucher is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manchester. She was born in France where she completed her BA and MA. She received her PhD from Queen Mary University of London (2015). Afterwards, she held teaching positions at the University of Warwick, Sciences Po Paris, and the University of Manchester. She has published an article on gender and French soft power in Historical Journal and a piece on cultural diplomacy during the Second World War in Journal of Contemporary History.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroduction1: Projections and Perceptions of France in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain2: Gender and high-society cultural diplomacy, 1900-19133: The gendered and transnational workings of academic diplomacy4: Transnational French and British cultural fronts, 1914-19195: Women and the masculinisation of cultural diplomacy in the interwar period6: Résistantes and children in the service of Charles de Gaulle's propagandaConclusionBibliographyIndex

...a fascinating account of the complex motives which led a broad range of French émigrés to become engaged in the curation of British perceptions of France.