Andrea Mansker
B. A. California State University; M. A. and Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: (931) 598-1861
Office Location: WE 203
Email: amansker@sewanee.edu
Areas of Specialization
European Cultural and Intellectual History; Modern French History; Gender and the History of Sexuality
Courses Taught
Revolutionary Era; Modern France; European Cultural and Intellectual History, 1750-1890; Honor, Shame and Violence in Modern Europe; Consumer Culture and Its Discontents; Crimes and Scandals in the Historical Imagination; Sexuality and the Self in Modern Europe
Biography
My research interests revolve around issues of cultural, intellectual and gender history in modern France. My current book project focuses on a French feminist dueling challenge issued in 1911 by a Toulousain journalist named Arria Ly. I use this incident and the debate surrounding it as foils for exploring broader transformations in the code of honor, the conception of singleness and feminist sexual politics in pre-war France. My article, "'Mademoiselle Arria Ly Wants Blood!' Feminism and the Debate on Female Honor in Belle Epoque France," is under consideration with French Historical Studies.
I am also presently revising an article for Feminist Studies that examines why singlehood has been problematized by historians of the first-wave feminist movement as a particularly Anglo-American category. Whereas much attention has been paid to the "redundant woman" question in turn-of-the-century English and American feminist movements, French feminist scholarship has emphasized the model of "republican motherhood" in spite of the large number of unmarried women in the French context.
