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Colonial Metropolis

The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris

By: Jennifer Anne Boittin

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Colonial Metropolis

The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris

By: Jennifer Anne Boittin

Between the world wars, the mesmerizing capital of France's colonial empire attracted denizens from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Paris became not merely their home but also a site for political engagement. Colonial Metropolis tells the story of the interactions and connections of these black colonial migrants and white feminists in the social, cultural, and political world of interwar Paris and of how both were denied certain rights lauded by the Third Republic such as the vote, how they suffered from sensationalist depictions in popular culture, and how they pursued parity in ways that were often interpreted as politically subversive.

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0803229933

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Undesirable

Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952

By: Jennifer Anne Boittin

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Undesirable

Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952

By: Jennifer Anne Boittin

Archival research into policing and surveillance of migrant women illuminates pressing contemporary issues. Examining little-known policing archives in France, Senegal, and Cambodia, Jennifer Anne Boittin unearths the stories of hundreds of women labeled “undesirable” by the French colonial police and society in the early twentieth century. These “undesirables” were often women traveling alone, women who were poor or ill, women of color, or women whose intimate lives were deemed unruly. To refute the label and be able to move freely, they spoke out or wrote impassioned letters: some emphasized their “undesirable” qualities to suggest that they needed the care and protection of the state to support their movements, while others used the empire’s own laws around Frenchness and mobility to challenge state or societal interference. Tacking between advocacy and supplication, these women summoned intimate details to move beyond, contest, or confound surveillance efforts, bringing to life a practice that Boittin terms “passionate mobility.” In considering how ordinary women pursued autonomy, security, companionship, or simply a better existence in the face of surveillance and control, Undesirable illuminates pressing contemporary issues of migration and violence.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226822249

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9780226822242

Undesirable

Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952

By: Jennifer Anne Boittin

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Undesirable

Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952

By: Jennifer Anne Boittin

Examining little-known policing archives in France, Senegal, and Cambodia, Jennifer Boittin unearths the stories of hundreds of women labeled "undesirable" by the French imperial police in the early twentieth century. These undesirables were often women traveling alone, women who were poor or ill, women of color proclaiming their "Frenchness" to move throughout the empire, or women whose intimate lives were deemed unruly. Undesirability often brought alongside it immobility or imposed migration; French officials routinely either denied passage throughout the empire or attempted to relocate women as they saw fit. To refute the label, women wrote impassioned letters to police and ministers throughout France, French West Africa, and French Indochina. Some emphasized their "undesirable" qualities to suggest that they needed the care and protection of the state to support their movements. Others used the empire's own laws around Frenchness and mobility to challenge state interference, illustrating their independence. Tacking between advocacy and supplication, these women summoned intimate details to move beyond, contest, or confound surveillance efforts and the intrusions of imperial policing, bringing to life a practice that Boittin terms "passionate mobility." In considering how ordinary European, Southeast Asian, and West African women pursued autonomy, security, companionship, or simply a better existence in the face of police surveillance and control, Undesirable illuminates pressing contemporary issues of migration and violence"--

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Colonial Metropolis

The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris

By: Jennifer Anne Boittin

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The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris

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