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First Name
Jennifer
Last Name
Davis
Country
United States
State
OK
Affiliation
University of Oklahoma
Website URL
http://www.ou.edu/cas/history/people/faculty/jennifer-davis
Keywords
France, cooks, gender, work, women, Enlightenment, history of sexuality, law, empire, Atlantic Revolutions, libertines
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About Me

Jennifer J. Davis is L. R. Brammer, Jr. Presidential Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

Recent Publications

2023. Bad Subjects: Libertine Lives in the French Atlantic, 1619-181 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press).

  1. Coauthored with Robert Scafe, “Colonial Reckoning: Population, Power, and Liberty in the French Atlantic, 1660-1787,” in Margaret Cook Andersen and Melissa K. Byrnes, eds. Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire: The Colonial Politics of Population (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).

2023. “Colonial Liberties: Sex, Race and the Law in the French Atlantic, 1603-1791,” in Nina Kushner and Andrew Israel Ross, eds. Histories of French Sexuality: Enlightenment to the Present (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press).

2017. “The Radical Enlightenment and Movements for Women’s Equality in Europe and the Americas,” in Steffen Ducheyne, ed Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment (New York: Routledge).

  1. “The Laws of Eighteenth-Century Sex: Thérèse philosophe” in Fiction and Film for French Historians: A Cultural Bulletin, (March 2017). Invited blog post: Liana Vardi, ed.

http://h-france.net/fffh/classics/the-laws-of-eighteenth-century-sex-therese-philosophe/

  1. Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of French Cooking, 1650-1830. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
  1. “To Make a Revolutionary Cuisine: Gender and Politics in French Kitchens, 1789- 1815,” Gender & History, vol. 23, no. 2 (August): 301-320.
  1. “Masters of Disguise: French Cooks between Art and Nature,” Gastronomica, vol. 9, no. 1: 36-49.
  1. “Consuming Faith: Religious Dietary Law and the Market for Meat in Eighteenth- Century Paris,” Food and History, vol 3, no. 2, pp. 175-191.
Media Coverage
Country Focus
France
Expertise by Geography
France, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
17th century, 18th century, 19th century
Expertise by Topic
Colonialism, Food History, Gender, Labor, Law, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexuality, Women