"Civilization and the Civil Code: The Scandal of 'Child Marriage' in French Algeria, 1870-1900."
November 5, 2009 - November 5, 2009
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM,
Tisch Hall, Room 1014
Host Department: Center for European Studies - European Union Center (CES-EUC)
Sponsors: CES-EUC, Department of History
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Judith Surkis is Associate Professor of History and History and Literature at Harvard University, where she teaches European cultural and intellectual history as well as the history of gender, sexuality, and empire. She is the author of Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 (Cornell, 2006) and is currently completing Scandalous Subjects: Intimacy and Indecency in France and French Algeria, 1830-1930. This new book, by exploring sexual and legal conflict in the history of Algerian colonization, seeks to re-frame contemporary controversies over sexual and religious pluralism in France today.
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