Appendices.
Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France 1880-1945
What this is and how to use it
Like most monographs, Reproductive Citizens relies on a combination and creative use of multiple primary sources. What you find here is intended as a companion to the book, one that fleshes out the many scholarly choices that went into its design, production, and execution.
Appendix A:
Description of Sources and Methodologies
Appendix A offers a description of some (though not all) of the materials used to build and delimit this case study. It also includes an explanation of methodologies used to sample or otherwise determine how best to make meaning out of a chaos of sources.
Appendix B:
Statistics on Foreigners in France and Paris
Appendix B lays bare the invisible architecture of the book, including the less-than-interesting data-crunching on which the project so relied. It sheds light on which of those findings drove the book’s central research questions. It illuminates how this case study was outlined and assembled and suggests, too, how it evolved over time.
I hope that this material may serve as a guide for students interested in studying any aspect in the social history of women, gender, sexuality, and/or migration in Paris, though I think graduate students seeking models on how to compose academic projects, more generally, might also find a helpful framework in these pages.
I myself received guidance from Prof. Claire Lemercier, Prof. Delphine Serre, and especially Prof. Claire Zalc while I was a graduate student first attempting to imagine the contours of this project. I thank them for teaching me about these sources and introducing me to various sampling methods. Reproductive Citizens would have been a very different kind of book without their expertise, support, and advice.