Rebecca Pulju
Assistant Professor (Visiting Professor from Kent State University)
| Degrees: | Ph.D. (Iowa), M.A. (Iowa), B.A. (University of St. Thomas) |
| Email: | rebecca.pulju@carleton.ca |
Rebecca Pulju specializes in the history of women and gender in modern France. Her book, Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France (Cambridge, 2011), explored the emergence of a citizen-consumer role for women in the aftermath of war and occupation. She has now turned to women and families in rural France, as they were largely left out of the evolution of mass consumer society she examined in her first book. She teaches courses on women, gender, and family in modern France and Europe.
Publications:
“Finding a Grand Amour in Marriage,” in Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Modern Marriage Crises, edited by Kristin Celello and Hanan Kholoussy. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press, fall 2015 .
“Responsabilisation et éducation des consommatrices dans les années d l’après-guerre,” Le Mouvement Social 250 (2015): 29-40.
“Cléo de 5 à 7,” Film and Fiction for French Historians: A Cultural Bulletin 2 (2011).
Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Paperback edition, fall 2013.
“The Woman’s Paradise: The American Fantasy, Home Appliances, and Consumer Demand in Liberation France, 1944-1947” in Beth Tobin and Maureen Goggin, eds., Material Women: Consuming Desires and Collecting Objects, 1770-1950 (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2009), 111-124.
“Consumers for the Nation: Women, Politics and Consumer Organization in France, 1944-1965,” in Journal of Women’s History 18 (2006): 68-90.
“Changing Homes, Changing Lives: Material Conditions, Women’s Demands, and Consumer Society in Post-World War II France” in 2003 Proceedings of the Western Society for French History (2006).