The Shadows of the Resistance

Our research focuses on the causes of the wrongly-written history. We look at the place women had in the resistance, war and heroism over the years. We discover that the established definition of heroism determines who ends up in the history books and who doesn’t. We also look at the changes currently taking place in our society. Women’s emancipation, among other things, has caused us to look more critically at the role of women in the resistance. The historiography of the ‘40s is now assessed differently and the definition of a hero today cannot be compared to the definition of a hero which emerged after the war. This is how we explain why the fifteen women we focus on can suddenly get a street named after them eighty years after the war.