Department of History
1358 University Hall
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1358
(765) 494-4160
awhitney@purdue.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983, History
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978, History
B.A., Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 1975, History and French
?University of Nice, France, 1972-1973
AREAS OF INTEREST
Modern European Social and Cultural History; France since 1789; Modern European Women
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Purdue University, 1994 to present
Associate Professor, Denison University, 1993
Assistant Professor, Denison University, 1992-1993
Affiliated Scholar, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1991
Womens Studies Coordinator, Oakland University, 1990-1991
Assistant Professor, Oakland University, 1984-1991
Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamline University, 1983-1984
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL AND LEARNED SOCIETIES
Coordinating Council for Women in History
American Historical Association
Western Society for French History
French Historical Studies Association
Phi Beta Kappa
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, 1988
Oakland University Research Fellowship, 1985
American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1980-1981
French Government Scholarship, "Bourse Chateaubriand," 1980-1981
University of Wisconsin Graduate Student Travel Grant, 1980-1981
BOOKS
Eves Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming.
France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
ARTICLES
"Republican Women and Republican Families in the Personal Narratives of George Sand, Marie dAgoult, and Hortense Allart," in The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France, ed. Jo Burr Margadant. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.
"Sailing a Fragile Bark: Rewriting the Family and the Individual in Nineteenth-Century France," Journal of Family History 22 (April 1997): 150-175.
"Literary Production and the Rearticulation of Home Space in the Works of George Sand, Marie dAgoult, and Hortense Allart," Womens History Review 6 (1997): 115-132.
"Working Women, Gender, and Industrialization in Nineteenth-Century France: The Case of Lorraine Embroidery Manufacturing," in European Women and Preindustrial Craft, ed. Daryl Hafter. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1995, 87-107.
"Writing the 1848 Revolution: Politics, Gender, and Feminism in the Works of French Women of Letters," French Historical Studies 18 (Fall 1994): 1001-1024.
"Life Is Nothing without Furniture: Consumer Practices of the Parisian Bourgeoisie, 1814-1870," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 17 (1990): 278-85.
"Working Women, Gender, and Industrialization in Nineteenth-Century France: The Case of Lorraine Embroidery Manufacturing," Journal of Womens History 2 (Fall 1990): 42-65.
"Political Economists and Specialized Industrialization during the French Second Republic, 1848-1852," French History 3 (1989): 293-311.
"Feminine Hospitality in the Bourgeois Home of Nineteenth-Century France," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 14 (1987): 197-203.
"To Triumph before Feminine Taste: Bourgeois Womens Consumption and Hand Methods of Production in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Paris," Business History Review 60 (Winter 1986): 541-63.
"Women Workers Lay Down the Law: The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Crisis of the Lorraine Embroidery Industry," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 13 (1986): 196-204.
"Down to Deaths Door: Womens Perceptions of Childbirth in America," co-authored with Judith Walzer Leavitt, in Women and Health in America: Historical Readings, ed. Judith Walzer Leavitt. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, 155-165.
SCHOLARLY PAPERS
"Aspasia, Diotima, Cassandra, and Cleopatra: Constructing Public Women in July Monarchy Literary Culture," 45th annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, 19-20 March 1999.
"Alexis de Tocqueville and George Sand in Literary and Political Culture," 24th annual conference of the Western Society for French History, Charlotte, North Carolina, 30 Oct - 2 November 1996.
"Genius Has No Sex: Visual Images and Textual Identities of Women Writers in Nineteenth-Century France; "Tenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 7-9 June 1996.
"Women Writers Republics, 1836-1866," 42nd annual conference of the Society for French Historical Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, 21-23 March 1996.
"Home, City, and Nature: Reconfigurations of the Gendering of Space in the Works of French Women Writers," 10th annual conference of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Santa Cruz, California, 7-8 April 1995.
"Literary Production and the Spatial Politics of Gender in the Works of Nineteenth-Century Women Writers," 22nd annual conference of the Western Society for French History, Des Moines, Iowa, 26-29 October 1994.
"Our Home Is the Public Square: Women Writers, Gender, and Politics in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century," 21st annual conference of the Western Society for French History, Missoula, Montana,13-16 October 1993.
"The Enchantments of Prudence: Intellect, Passion, and Public Identity in the Self-Representations of French Women Writers," 9th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Poughkeepsie, New York, 11-13 June 1993.
"Writing the 1848 Revolution: Gender, Class, and Women in the Public Sphere," 107th annual conference of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 27-30 December 1992.
"Helpmates, Spendthrifts and Seducers: Bourgeois Women as Consumers in Nineteenth-Century France," 52nd annual conference of the Economic History Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 18-20 September 1992.
"Gender and the femme écrivain in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Political Culture, 38th annual conference of the Society for French Historical Studies, El Paso, Texas, 19-21 March 1992.
"Women Writers and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France," North Central Womens Studies Association Meeting, South Bend, Indiana, 1-2 March 1991.
"Life Is Nothing without Furniture: Consumer Practices of the Parisian Bourgeoisie, 1814-1870," 17th annual conference of the Western Society for French History, New Orleans, Louisiana, 18-21 October 1989.
"The Importance of Taste and Consumption: France at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851," 34th annual conference of the Society for French Historical Studies, Columbia, South Carolina, 17-19 March 1988.
"Analyzing Women as Consumers during Industrialization: The Case of Mid-Nineteenth-Century France," 7th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 19-21 June 1987.
"Feminine Hospitality in the Bourgeois Home of Nineteenth-Century France," 14th annual conference of the Western Society for French History, Baltimore, Maryland, 19-22 November 1986.
"Women Embroiderers Resistance to Technological Change in Nineteenth-Century Lorraine, France," 46th annual conference of the Economic History Association, Hartford, Connecticut, 26-28 September 1986.
"Defining the Feminine: Rewriting the History of Modern France," 12th annual conference of the Great Lakes History Association, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 17-18 April 1986.
"Women Workers 'Lay Down the Law': The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Crisis of the Lorraine Embroidery Industry," 13th annual conference of the Western Society for French History, Edmonton, Alberta, 13-16 October 1985.
"Adolphe Blanqui and the Problem of Misery in 1848," 31st annual conference of the Society for French Historical Studies, Los Angeles, California, 22-23 March 1985.
"The Embroiderers of Lorraine: Women Workers Resistance to Proletarianization in the Nineteenth Century," annual conference of the Social Science History Association, Nashville, Tennessee, 22-25 October 1981.
"In Search of Equal Rights: Tocqueville, Women, and Public Policy in America," Tocqueville Conference of the Wisconsin Humanities Committee, Madison, Wisconsin, 23 February 1979.
OTHER SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Participant in Student-Author Conference, "The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France," Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, 7 February 1998.
Comment on panel, "Museums and European Nationalisms before the First World War," 112th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, 8-11 January 1998.
Comment on panel, "Revolutionary Women," 25th annual meeting of the Western Society for French History, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 15-19 October 1997.
Participant in Roundtable, "Only Questions to Offer: Rethinking French Feminist History after Joan Scott and Mona Ozouf," 43rd annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Lexington, Kentucky, 20-22 March 1997.
Presented paper, "The Republican Self-Narratives of George Sand, Marie dAgoult, and Hortense Allart," at New York Area French History Seminar, New School for Social Research, New York, New York, 7 December 1996.
Presented paper, "A Making of Public Women: Marie dAgoult, Hortense Allart, and George Sand in Nineteenth-Century France," Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 28 March 1994.
Presented paper, "Helpmates, Spendthrifts, and Seducers: Women as Consumers in Nineteenth-Century France," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 24 March 1991.
Comment on panel, "The Making of Public Policy for Indigent Women and Children in Three European Cities," 15th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 18-21 October 1990.
Comment on panel, "Class and Conflict under Merchant Capitalism," 10th annual meeting of the North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, 20-22 October 1988.
BOOK REVIEWS
Gay L. Gullickson, Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune (Ithaca, 1996), for French Politics and Society 15 (Summer 1997): 78-81.
Victoria de Grazia with Ellen Furlough, eds., The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (Berkeley, 1996), for Womens Review of Books 14 (April 1997): 18-19.
Willa Z. Silverman, The Notorious Life of Gyp: Right-wing Anarchist in Fin-de-siecle France (New York, 1995), for Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 24 (Fall-Winter 1995-1996): 234-235.
Ellen Furlough, Consumer Cooperation in France (Ithaca, 1991) and Lenard R. Berlanstein, BigBusiness and Industrial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century France (Berkeley, 1991), for Journal of Modern History 66 (June 1994): 390-93.
Marilyn Yalom, Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Womens Memory (New York, 1993), for Womens Review of Books 11 (February 1994): 29-30.
Aileen Ribeiro, Fashion in the French Revolution (New York, 1988), for Histoire sociale/Social History 22 (November 1989): 384-86.
Hartmut Kaelble, Industrialisation and Social Inequality in 19th-Century Europe (Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, 1986), for Technology and Culture 29 (July 1988): 690-91.
Michael Sonenscher, The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France (Berkeley, 1987), for Business History Review 62 (Summer 1988): 356-57.
Steven Laurence Kaplan and Cynthia J. Koepp, eds., Work in France: Representations, Meaning, Organization, and Practice (Ithaca, NY, 1986), for Journal of Economic History 44 (March 1987): 232-34.
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