Twenty years later, three-quarters of French households had a refrigerator, and half had a washing machine. In less than a decade, the stock of home appliances in France grew by four hundred percent, establishing the household as an important site for the reception of consumer culture, and ...
French chamber pot from 1757–1758, soft-paste porcelain from the famous Sèvres factory. The French loan word toilette first appeared in English around 1540. It referred to the small cloth draped over one's shoulders by a hairdresser. Through the late 1600s, both French and English came to...
Calling on a wide range of theories in English and French in an effort to bring the highly theoretical, 'disembodied' discourse that surrounds subjectivity 'down to 8 earth,' I consider the ways in which several contemporary writers and theorists work to create new sUbjectivities by reconfiguring...
I saw the French romance/drama filmPassagesat theMelbourne Queer Film festival in 2023. On the night it was introduced by festival curator Cerise Howard as addressing the historical gap in programming bisexual representation, to which (me included) the audience whooped and cheered. At the end o...
Field notes written in French were then further translated to English. While every effort has been made to preserve local language terms, present them in their original form, and explain their full contextual meaning, it is possible that certain cultural nuances will have failed to be conveyed ...