Suzanne Karpelès’ 1931 Encounters in Indochina and Europe: Multiple Femininities, Colonial Relations and Educative Sites explores articulations and ascriptions of femininities in Suzanne Karpelès’ encounters in Cambodia and Europe in 1931. The chapter highlights the fluidity of femininities in Karpelès’ 1931 encounters in spaces of circulation variously configured through the intimacies of empire, inter-imperial relations, internationalism, supra-internationalism and the internationalisation of fascism. It focusses on “portraits of moments” drawn from letters, reports, photographs, journal and newspaper articles that circulated between Karpelès, her mother Sophie (b.1858), and Laura Dreyfus-Barney (1897-1974), a wealthy American domiciled in Paris, which are brought together with material from the Conseil National des Femmes Françaises (The French National Council of Women – CNFF), the International Congress of Orientalists, the League of Nations, and the International Council of Women ICW).
Joyce Goodman, Suzanne Karpelès’ 1931 Encounters in Indochina and Europe: Multiple Femininities, Colonial Relations and Educative Sites, in ‘Femininity’ and the History of Women’s Education, edited by Tim Allender and Stephanie Spencer (Springer 2021), 63-87
