In France, women have long played a vital role in the military. Like most modern militaries, in multiple conflicts the […]
Colonial Colette: From Orientalism and Egyptian Pantomime to Polaire’s Jamaican “Slave”
I first read excerpts of Colette’s Sido in my IB French class in 2007, so when the recent biopic starring […]
The Persistence of Félicité Kina: Kinship, Gender, and Everyday Resistance
In January of 1803, the sixteen-year-old Félicité-Adelaïde Kina (née Quimard) traveled from Paris to Pontarlier to protest the imprisonment of […]
Locating Enslaved Black Wet Nurses in the Literature of French Slavery
[gpullquote class=”aligncenter”]“Enslaved women and their children enter the archives in little more than fragments.”1[/gpullquote] In George Sand’s 1832 idealist novel, […]
What Would Philippe Pinel Do? Old and New Understandings of Mental Illness
I was intrigued when, on February 1, 2018, I heard the journalist and author Johann Hari on Democracy Now! talking […]