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October 21, 2009
University of Michigan - Lecture on Scandal of 'Child Marriage' in French Algeria
The Department of History and The Center for European Studies European Union Center Present a Public Lecture
Thursday, Nov 5, 4 pm
Room 1014, Tisch Hall, University of Michigan
435 S. State St, Ann Arbor, MI
Civilization and the Civil Code: The Scandal of ‘Child Marriage’ in French Algeria,1870-1900
Judith Surkis
Associate Professor of History
Harvard University
Professor Surkis’s paper is drawn from her current book project, Scandalous Subjects: Intimacy and Indecency in France and French Algeria, 1830-1930. It focuses on how and why French jurists sought to regulate a Muslim father’s “right to force” (droit de djebr) a child into marriage under Islamic law. The talk explores what was at stake for French colonial legitimacy in these cases, and highlights the paradoxes that arose when women litigants contested this right before French courts of appeal.
Professor Surkis is the author of Sexing the Citizen: Masculinity and Morality in France, 1870-1920 (Cornell University Press, 2006).
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Algérienne assise (1881).
Sponsors: CES-EUC, Department of History.
Free and open to the public.
The European Union Center at the University of Michigan is a European Commission-designated EU Center of Excellence.
Posted by kpfister at October 21, 2009 01:46 PM
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