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European Women in French Settler Colonies

Monday, December 5, 2005
7:00PM
Olin Rice 100
Patricia Lorcin

colonistWere the colonies privileged sites for French women? Did they manipulate the boundaries of gender and race to further their personal and professional agendas? What was their role in the colonial enterprise? By looking briefly at a number of women in colonial Algeria from 1830 onwards, Patricia Lorcin will consider these questions in the hope of stimulating a post-lecture discussion

 

 

 


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