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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Innovative and engrossing,
Undesirable contains cutting-edge scholarship on sex and gender in the French Empire. Boittin provides a vivid and powerful set of images of white and Indigenous women’s encounters with the French state, showing how women engaged the colonial bureaucracy, police, and judiciary.” * Leora Auslander, University of Chicago *
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Undesirable is a breakthrough study of women’s determined pursuit of mobility across France’s twentieth-century empire. Boittin uncovers in rich detail the many strategies that individual women from all walks of life used to defy a colonial state determined to keep them ‘in their place.’ A wonderful achievement.” * Alice Conklin, The Ohio State University *
"This is a book that is both about telling stories and that itself tells many stories. It seems as if an accurate review should, itself, engage in an act of storytelling to fully convey the essence of Jennifer Anne Boittin’s remarkable and, in many ways, unsummarizable
Undesirable. Doing so, however, would require too many stories and more space than even
H-France Review allows." -- Hannah Frydman * H-France Review *
