Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire

Margaret Cook Andersen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the USA. As well as having published the book, Regeneration through Empire: Pronatalists and Colonial Settlement in the Third Republic (2015), she has written articles for a number of journals, including French Historical Studies; French Politics, Culture, and Society; the Journal of Contemporary History; French History; and the Journal of Family History.Melissa K. Byrnes is Professor of History at Southwestern University, in the USA. Her research focuses on migration, race, empire, activism, and human rights. In addition to publishing the book Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon (2023), she has written articles for journals including Cold War History, French Politics, Culture & Society, French Cultural Studies, and French History and Civilization.

• 1. Introduction;. Margaret Cook Andersen and Melissa K. Byrnes.- 2. Colonial Reckoning: Population, Power, and Liberty in the French Atlantic, 1660-1787; Robert Scafe and Jennifer J. Davis.- 3. Pensioning Pondicherry’s Enfants and Orphelins: Social Welfare and the French East India Company in Eighteenth-century French India; Jakob Burnham.- 4. “Free and Naturalized Frenchwomen”: Gender and the Politics of Race on Revolution-Era Bourbon Island; Nathan Marvin.- 5. Lipiodol and Fertility Medicine in Interwar Colonial Algeria; Margaret Cook Andersen.- 6. Rituals of the Matrice: Maternal and Infant Protection in French Colonial Cambodia; Tara Tran.- 7. The Colonial Origins of Mass Prophylaxis as a Public Health Panacea; Aro Velmet.- 8. Categorizing the Maghrib: How Census Data, Demography, and Population Studies Facilitated Governance Strategies and Public Messaging in Colonial and Postcolonial North Africa; Jennifer Johnson.- 9. Modernizing Migrants: Welfare and the Transformation of Marseille’s African Communities; Gregory Valdespino.- 10. Criminal Fertility: Policing North African Families after Decolonization; Melissa K Byrnes.- 11. Inessential Labour: Reproduction, work, and Algerian Family Migration after Independence; Elise Franklin.