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100 1 $aBoittin, Jennifer Anne,$eauthor.
245 10 $aUndesirable :$bpassionate mobility and women's defiance of French colonial policing, 1919-1952 /$cJennifer Anne Boittin
264 1 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c[2022]
264 4 $c©2022
300 $a1 online resource (283 pages)
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337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 00 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tIntroduction --$t1 "I Refused": Undesirable Immobile Vengeful --$t2 Traversing Movements of Embarking, Crossing, Disembarking, Circulating, Dispersing, and Reconstructing --$t3 "Man- Woman": Siting Frenchness, Sites of Frenchness --$t4 "The Law Has Been Violated in My Person": On the Anatomy of Intimate Violence --$t5 They "Allegedly Had Intimate Relations": Gossip, Desire, and Companionship --$tEpilogue --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex
520 $aArchival 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.
650 0 $aWomen$zFrance$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aWomen$zAfrica, French-speaking West$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aWomen$zSoutheast Asia$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aFrance$xColonies$zAfrica.
651 0 $aFrance$xColonies$zAsia.
650 7 $aHISTORY / General.$2bisacsh
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651 7 $aFrance.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204289
776 08 $iPrint version:$aBoittin, Jennifer Anne$tUndesirable$dChicago : University of Chicago Press,c2022$z9780226822235
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio16905008$zAll EBSCO eBooks
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