Jennifer Ngaire Heuer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1028482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Ngaire Heuer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Ngaire |
| FAMILY NAME | Heuer |
| SIGNATURE | HEUER J N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Note from the Editors
The Imperial State, Labor, and Resistance
The articles in this issue did not come to us as a set. Some were proposed in the context of conversations around global labor; others were submitted independently. They also examine very different sites in metropolitan France and the French empire, as well as different chronological turning points. These include the sugar plantations and courtrooms of the Caribbean before the second abolition of slavery in 1848; steamships crossing the Indian an…
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume II delves into the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French Revolution and the changes it wrought. The demarcation between property and power, and the changes in family life, religious practices, and socio-economic relations are explored, as well as the preoccupation with violence and terror, both of which were conspicuous aspects of the revolution. Simultaneous movements in England, Germany, Hungary, I…
A Note from the New Editors
In August 2022 the editorship of French Historical Studies passed from Kay Edwards and Carol Harrison (University of South Carolina) to a new team, Christine Haynes and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer. As we take the helm of this journal, which has been publishing since 1958, we are humbled by the trust placed in us by the search committee, Jeff Horn, Jean Pedersen, and Roxanne Panchasi, and the Executive Board of the Society for French Historical Studies,…
Neither cowardly nor greedy? Buying and selling escape from conscription in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France
In late revolutionary and Napoleonic France, arranging for a paid substitute to fight in one’s place could be a straightforward contract. But it was also a vexed relationship; those who avoided fighting could appear cowardly and selfish and those who accepted money to risk their lives foolhardy or greedy. This article examines replacement from its uneasy institution with conscription in the late Revolution, through its apparent banalization under…
Race, Law, and Contested Heritage: Toussaint Louverture's Family in France
The Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture died in a French prison in 1803; his family was also brought to the metropole, where they would spend the rest of their days in the rural southwest of the country. Their lives in France are usually recounted only as biographical curiosity, but they illuminate complicated interactions of race, law, and political legacy. This article relates their experiences both to those of other free people of color…
The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830
The French Revolution transformed the nation's—and eventually the world's—thinking about citizenship, nationality, and gender roles. At the same time, it created fundamental contradictions between citizenship and family as women acquired new rights and duties but remained dependents within the household. In The Family and the Nation , Jennifer Ngaire Heuer examines the meaning of citizenship during and after the revolution and the relationship be…
J oan W allach S cott . Sex and Secularism
The primary goal of Joan Wallach Scott’s Sex and Secularism is to counter the notion that secular societies inherently promote gender equality more than religious—particularly Muslim—ones. While implicitly acknowledging the dangers of religious extremism, Scott argues that secularism is not in itself a guarantee of equality. As such, her latest book is a direct intervention in contemporary political debates and a rebuttal of views she summarizes …
Celibacy, Courage, and Hungry Wives: Debating Military Marriage and Citizenship in Pre-Revolutionary France
Enlightenment reformers in France had very different visions about whether military men should marry. In one view, acting as a good soldier and citizen drew on new models of masculine virility, and required separating oneself entirely from the restraints of domestic life. Conversely, being a soldier-citizen could mean building on changing ideas of domestic virtue and respectability, combining a patriotic obligation to fight with responsibility to…
Celibacy, Courage, and Hungry Wives: Debating Military Marriage and Citizenship in Pre-Revolutionary France
Enlightenment reformers in France had very different visions about whether military men should marry. In one view, acting as a good soldier and citizen drew on new models of masculine virility, and required separating oneself entirely from the restraints of domestic life. Conversely, being a soldier-citizen could mean building on changing ideas of domestic virtue and respectability, combining a patriotic obligation to fight with responsibility to…
Celibacy, Courage, and Hungry Wives: Debating Military Marriage and Citizenship in Pre-Revolutionary France
Enlightenment reformers in France had very different visions about whether military men should marry. In one view, acting as a good soldier and citizen drew on new models of masculine virility, and required separating oneself entirely from the restraints of domestic life. Conversely, being a soldier-citizen could mean building on changing ideas of domestic virtue and respectability, combining a patriotic obligation to fight with responsibility to…
The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830
The French Revolution transformed the nation's—and eventually the world's—thinking about citizenship, nationality, and gender roles. At the same time, it created fundamental contradictions between citizenship and family as women acquired new rights and duties but remained dependents within the household. In The Family and the Nation , Jennifer Ngaire Heuer examines the meaning of citizenship during and after the revolution and the relationship be…
J oan W allach S cott . Sex and Secularism
The primary goal of Joan Wallach Scott’s Sex and Secularism is to counter the notion that secular societies inherently promote gender equality more than religious—particularly Muslim—ones. While implicitly acknowledging the dangers of religious extremism, Scott argues that secularism is not in itself a guarantee of equality. As such, her latest book is a direct intervention in contemporary political debates and a rebuttal of views she summarizes …
Neither cowardly nor greedy? Buying and selling escape from conscription in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France
In late revolutionary and Napoleonic France, arranging for a paid substitute to fight in one’s place could be a straightforward contract. But it was also a vexed relationship; those who avoided fighting could appear cowardly and selfish and those who accepted money to risk their lives foolhardy or greedy. This article examines replacement from its uneasy institution with conscription in the late Revolution, through its apparent banalization under…
Race, Law, and Contested Heritage: Toussaint Louverture's Family in France
The Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture died in a French prison in 1803; his family was also brought to the metropole, where they would spend the rest of their days in the rural southwest of the country. Their lives in France are usually recounted only as biographical curiosity, but they illuminate complicated interactions of race, law, and political legacy. This article relates their experiences both to those of other free people of color…
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume II delves into the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French Revolution and the changes it wrought. The demarcation between property and power, and the changes in family life, religious practices, and socio-economic relations are explored, as well as the preoccupation with violence and terror, both of which were conspicuous aspects of the revolution. Simultaneous movements in England, Germany, Hungary, I…
A Note from the New Editors
In August 2022 the editorship of French Historical Studies passed from Kay Edwards and Carol Harrison (University of South Carolina) to a new team, Christine Haynes and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer. As we take the helm of this journal, which has been publishing since 1958, we are humbled by the trust placed in us by the search committee, Jeff Horn, Jean Pedersen, and Roxanne Panchasi, and the Executive Board of the Society for French Historical Studies,…
The Imperial State, Labor, and Resistance
The articles in this issue did not come to us as a set. Some were proposed in the context of conversations around global labor; others were submitted independently. They also examine very different sites in metropolitan France and the French empire, as well as different chronological turning points. These include the sugar plantations and courtrooms of the Caribbean before the second abolition of slavery in 1848; steamships crossing the Indian an…
A Note from the Editors
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · History (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Economics (2 works)