Jennifer Anne Boittin
Biographic Data
| ID | 338443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Anne Boittin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Boittin |
| SIGNATURE | BOITTIN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Colonisations
The collected volume Colonisations: notre histoire (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2023) is a landmark publication that offers a critical assessment of France’s fraught role in global history, ranging from the precolonial era to the present. It makes a powerful case for the continuing relevance of the complex history of colonialism in France and the world today. This roundtable features reflections on the volume by four historians working on different…
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics in the history of world sexualities. Split across twenty-two chapters, this volume places the history of sexuality in dialogue with anthropology, women's history, LGBTQ+ history, queer theory, and public history, as well as examining the impact Freud and Foucault have had on the history of sexuality. The volume continues by providing overviews on the sexual body, fa…
Listening for the Non-Dits of a Post-Racial Utopia in Stories of Kinship and Intimacy
This article explores what is said and not said (the non-dit) about race in contemporary France via three case studies that trace silences and elisions as regards race from the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries. The first case is a 1930 book about African Americans written by Magdeleine Paz. The second case looks at interracial fears regarding sex work in West Africa after World War II. The third case is the 2012 guerrilla film Rengaine, wh…
The Great Game of Hide and Seek Has Worked
Cet article analyse la résistance culturelle dans les Caraïbes autour de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Se basant sur les écrits de Suzanne Roussi Césaire pour la revue Tropiques (1941–1945), sous le régime de Vichy en Martinique, mais s’inspirant aussi de son travail pour la revue, tel l’obtention du papier nécessaire pour l’imprimer, cet article propose de reconnaître ses pratiques comme une forme de marronnage. En reconnaissant la part du marronn…
The rot that remains
In its 28 December 2017 editorial entitled ‘France Fails to Face Up to Racism’, the New York Times decried the recent ousting of Rokhaya Diallo, a French journalist, from a government advisory coun
Alice L. Conklin, In the Museum of Man
Amelia H. Lyons, The Civilizing Mission in the
Algérie, mythe renforcé indirectement par l'excellent documentaire de Yamina Benguigui, Mémoires
Are You Trying to Play a White Woman?'La Mère Patrieand the Female Body in French West Africa
When they carved out a place for themselves in the colonial system of French West Africa, black and white women questioned how the romanticized white, bourgeois femininity that defined African girls’ education in the AOF (L’Afrique occidentale française) regulated and contested all women’s bodies, sexuality, and domesticity. Traditionally, administrators and observers construed white women as untouchable, opposing them to highly sensual and avail…
Adventurers and Agents Provocateurs
When Dr. Rosie Gräfenberg traveled to French West Africa in 1929, she set the French security and intelligence service on high alert. Rumors preceding her arrival suggested she might be a Russian agent, a communist agitator, and a German spy, among other things. She, however, presented herself as a German journalist. This article contrasts Gräfenberg's autobiography and newspaper articles with French police archives to consider why the stories su…
Hierarchies of Race and Gender in the French Colonial Empire, 1914-1946
This article looks at French Indochina, metropolitan France, and French West Africa from 1914 through 1946 to illustrate specific ways in which French colonial authority operated across the French empire. We look at how colonized people challenged the complex formal and informal hierarchies of race, class, and gender that French administrators and colonizers sought to impose upon them. We argue that both the French imperial prerogatives and colon…
Colonial Metropolis
Feminist Mediations of the Exotic
This article considers why and how locality influenced feminists’ perceptions of colonised women. It does so through an analysis of how militants and novelists linked with the Union Française pour le Suffrage des Femmes (French Union for Women's Suffrage, UFSF) perceived the Arab and Berber women of colonial North Africa. The organisation had branches in North Africa, and thus feminists in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are compared to those in Fra…
Who Is French
In recent years scholars of France have devoted a great deal of time and effort to the study of what has been called French universalism, the idea that the nation’s republican tradition, and to an important extent French culture in general, centers on certain values held to be applicable to all peoples. Explorations of this issue have emphasized not only the essential contours of this ideology but also its contradictions.1 How can adherence to a …
Black in France
This article uses notes generated by France's surveillance of African and Afro-Caribbean migrants during the interwar years to analyze the use black men made of racial terms such as nègre and mulâtre. Although developed before the twentieth century, such racial language was infused with new political, social and cultural meaning after World War I. Workers and intellectuals, often at odds with each other, developed a race consciousness that was bo…
Opera in France, 1870–1914
The high culture of late nineteenth-century France, which was for the most part Parisian, was marked by two contradictory trends. On the one hand, Paris was a global metropolis that attracted artistic elites from the entire civilized world and served as a stepping stone to fame for many of them. On the other hand, France itself was traumatized by the defeat of 1871 and felt outdistanced by more dynamic economic powers. In certain artistic fields,…
In Black and White
Pendant l'entre-deux-guerres, Paris a vu s'épanouir une culture noire sous des formes diverses: musique, danse et arts plastiques. La «négrophilie» qui en résulta coexistait pendant ces années folles avec le développement par des étudiants et ouvriers noirs d'un discours anti-impérialiste. Affichant leur mécontentement par le biais de journaux clamant l'indépendance ou l'assimilation, ces individus préparaient la Négritude et plus tard la décolon…
Black in France
This article uses notes generated by France's surveillance of African and Afro-Caribbean migrants during the interwar years to analyze the use black men made of racial terms such as nègre and mulâtre. Although developed before the twentieth century, such racial language was infused with new political, social and cultural meaning after World War I. Workers and intellectuals, often at odds with each other, developed a race consciousness that was bo…
In Black and White
Pendant l'entre-deux-guerres, Paris a vu s'épanouir une culture noire sous des formes diverses: musique, danse et arts plastiques. La «négrophilie» qui en résulta coexistait pendant ces années folles avec le développement par des étudiants et ouvriers noirs d'un discours anti-impérialiste. Affichant leur mécontentement par le biais de journaux clamant l'indépendance ou l'assimilation, ces individus préparaient la Négritude et plus tard la décolon…
Hierarchies of Race and Gender in the French Colonial Empire, 1914-1946
This article looks at French Indochina, metropolitan France, and French West Africa from 1914 through 1946 to illustrate specific ways in which French colonial authority operated across the French empire. We look at how colonized people challenged the complex formal and informal hierarchies of race, class, and gender that French administrators and colonizers sought to impose upon them. We argue that both the French imperial prerogatives and colon…
Feminist Mediations of the Exotic
This article considers why and how locality influenced feminists’ perceptions of colonised women. It does so through an analysis of how militants and novelists linked with the Union Française pour le Suffrage des Femmes (French Union for Women's Suffrage, UFSF) perceived the Arab and Berber women of colonial North Africa. The organisation had branches in North Africa, and thus feminists in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are compared to those in Fra…
Who Is French
In recent years scholars of France have devoted a great deal of time and effort to the study of what has been called French universalism, the idea that the nation’s republican tradition, and to an important extent French culture in general, centers on certain values held to be applicable to all peoples. Explorations of this issue have emphasized not only the essential contours of this ideology but also its contradictions.1 How can adherence to a …
Are You Trying to Play a White Woman?'La Mère Patrieand the Female Body in French West Africa
When they carved out a place for themselves in the colonial system of French West Africa, black and white women questioned how the romanticized white, bourgeois femininity that defined African girls’ education in the AOF (L’Afrique occidentale française) regulated and contested all women’s bodies, sexuality, and domesticity. Traditionally, administrators and observers construed white women as untouchable, opposing them to highly sensual and avail…
In Black and White
Pendant l'entre-deux-guerres, Paris a vu s'épanouir une culture noire sous des formes diverses: musique, danse et arts plastiques. La «négrophilie» qui en résulta coexistait pendant ces années folles avec le développement par des étudiants et ouvriers noirs d'un discours anti-impérialiste. Affichant leur mécontentement par le biais de journaux clamant l'indépendance ou l'assimilation, ces individus préparaient la Négritude et plus tard la décolon…
Opera in France, 1870–1914
The high culture of late nineteenth-century France, which was for the most part Parisian, was marked by two contradictory trends. On the one hand, Paris was a global metropolis that attracted artistic elites from the entire civilized world and served as a stepping stone to fame for many of them. On the other hand, France itself was traumatized by the defeat of 1871 and felt outdistanced by more dynamic economic powers. In certain artistic fields,…
Black in France
This article uses notes generated by France's surveillance of African and Afro-Caribbean migrants during the interwar years to analyze the use black men made of racial terms such as nègre and mulâtre. Although developed before the twentieth century, such racial language was infused with new political, social and cultural meaning after World War I. Workers and intellectuals, often at odds with each other, developed a race consciousness that was bo…
Colonial Metropolis
Feminist Mediations of the Exotic
This article considers why and how locality influenced feminists’ perceptions of colonised women. It does so through an analysis of how militants and novelists linked with the Union Française pour le Suffrage des Femmes (French Union for Women's Suffrage, UFSF) perceived the Arab and Berber women of colonial North Africa. The organisation had branches in North Africa, and thus feminists in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are compared to those in Fra…
Who Is French
In recent years scholars of France have devoted a great deal of time and effort to the study of what has been called French universalism, the idea that the nation’s republican tradition, and to an important extent French culture in general, centers on certain values held to be applicable to all peoples. Explorations of this issue have emphasized not only the essential contours of this ideology but also its contradictions.1 How can adherence to a …
Hierarchies of Race and Gender in the French Colonial Empire, 1914-1946
This article looks at French Indochina, metropolitan France, and French West Africa from 1914 through 1946 to illustrate specific ways in which French colonial authority operated across the French empire. We look at how colonized people challenged the complex formal and informal hierarchies of race, class, and gender that French administrators and colonizers sought to impose upon them. We argue that both the French imperial prerogatives and colon…
Adventurers and Agents Provocateurs
When Dr. Rosie Gräfenberg traveled to French West Africa in 1929, she set the French security and intelligence service on high alert. Rumors preceding her arrival suggested she might be a Russian agent, a communist agitator, and a German spy, among other things. She, however, presented herself as a German journalist. This article contrasts Gräfenberg's autobiography and newspaper articles with French police archives to consider why the stories su…
Amelia H. Lyons, The Civilizing Mission in the
Algérie, mythe renforcé indirectement par l'excellent documentaire de Yamina Benguigui, Mémoires
Are You Trying to Play a White Woman?'La Mère Patrieand the Female Body in French West Africa
When they carved out a place for themselves in the colonial system of French West Africa, black and white women questioned how the romanticized white, bourgeois femininity that defined African girls’ education in the AOF (L’Afrique occidentale française) regulated and contested all women’s bodies, sexuality, and domesticity. Traditionally, administrators and observers construed white women as untouchable, opposing them to highly sensual and avail…
Alice L. Conklin, In the Museum of Man
The rot that remains
In its 28 December 2017 editorial entitled ‘France Fails to Face Up to Racism’, the New York Times decried the recent ousting of Rokhaya Diallo, a French journalist, from a government advisory coun
The Great Game of Hide and Seek Has Worked
Cet article analyse la résistance culturelle dans les Caraïbes autour de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Se basant sur les écrits de Suzanne Roussi Césaire pour la revue Tropiques (1941–1945), sous le régime de Vichy en Martinique, mais s’inspirant aussi de son travail pour la revue, tel l’obtention du papier nécessaire pour l’imprimer, cet article propose de reconnaître ses pratiques comme une forme de marronnage. En reconnaissant la part du marronn…
Listening for the Non-Dits of a Post-Racial Utopia in Stories of Kinship and Intimacy
This article explores what is said and not said (the non-dit) about race in contemporary France via three case studies that trace silences and elisions as regards race from the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries. The first case is a 1930 book about African Americans written by Magdeleine Paz. The second case looks at interracial fears regarding sex work in West Africa after World War II. The third case is the 2012 guerrilla film Rengaine, wh…
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics in the history of world sexualities. Split across twenty-two chapters, this volume places the history of sexuality in dialogue with anthropology, women's history, LGBTQ+ history, queer theory, and public history, as well as examining the impact Freud and Foucault have had on the history of sexuality. The volume continues by providing overviews on the sexual body, fa…
Colonisations
The collected volume Colonisations: notre histoire (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2023) is a landmark publication that offers a critical assessment of France’s fraught role in global history, ranging from the precolonial era to the present. It makes a powerful case for the continuing relevance of the complex history of colonialism in France and the world today. This roundtable features reflections on the volume by four historians working on different…
History (14 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (6 works)