Carnival Balls and Penal Codes: Body Politics in July Monarchy France Available to Purchase

Judith Surkis is currently a Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study. A historian of modern France, she has published Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870–1920 (Cornell, 2006) and is completing Scandalous Subjects: Intimacy and Indecency in France and French Algeria, 1830–1930.