fanny louvierLucy Cavendish College |
Fanny Louvier is pursuing an MPhil in Economic and Social History under the supervision of Dr Natalia Mora Sitja. She graduated with a double-BA in social sciences and philosophy from Sciences Po and La Sorbonne in 2013 with a magna cum laude in philosophy. She then entered the Economic and Public Policy Master's at Sciences Po Paris.
Fanny is interested in the cultural and economic history of women during the twentieth century, focusing on women during the Second World War. She wrote her undergraduate thesis in philosophy on the decline of the nation state and the creation of a constitutional patriotism. This year, she is planning to study women's work during the Second World War in France and Great-Britain through an analysis of the economic theories used by both governments and a focus on the patriarchal values underlying such works. She would be interested in pursuing her analysis of women's work during the Second World War further in order to combine such a project with her interest for the history of domestic service, more specifically the structural changes it went through during the twentieth century. Indeed, her attention was drawn to a striking contrast between two social representations - that of the nurse and that of the domestic worker. Focusing on female domestic servants during the Second World War would be an attempt to go further through the path of an alternative of the Second World War's popular masculine history.