Kathryn Norberg

Kathryn Norberg

Kathryn Norberg

Professor Emeritus

Email: knorberg@ucla.edu

Office: 5248 Bunche Hall

Phone: 310-825-7317

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Biography

2000-2005 CoEditor, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society

2003-2004 President, Western Society for French History

1992-1996 Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

1998-1999 Co-Chair, UCLA Women’s Studies

Field of Study

Europe, Women

Research

History of Prostitution, European Women pre-1800, Material Culture: Fashion, Furniture, Women of the French Court

Publications

Books

  • Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV Edited with Sandra Rosenbaum. Texas Tech University Press, 2014.
  • Furnishing the Eighteenth Century. Edited with Dena Goodman. New York: Routledge, 2006.
  • From Royal to Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France. Edited with Sara Melzer. Berkeley:University of California Press, 1998.
  • Fiscal Crises and Representative Government, edited with Philip Hoffman Stanford University Press, 1994.
  • Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600-1814 University of California Press, Berkeley: 1985.

Articles

  • “Louis XIV: King of Fashion?” in The Fashion Print in the Age of Louis XIV. Costume Society of America Series. Edited by Kathryn Norberg & Sandra Rosenbaum (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2014), 135-165.
  • “The Prostitute’s Body: Medieval to Modern, 1500-1740,” in The Routledge History of the Body & Sex in the West Edited by Sarah Toulalan & Kathryn Fischer (London: Routledge, 2012).393-408.
  • “In Her Own Words: An Eighteenth-Century Madame Tells her Story,”in Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Copmmerce and Morality Edited by Ann Lewis & Markman Ellis (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012)
  • “Salon as Stage: Actress/Courtesans and their Homes in Late Eighteenth-century Paris,” in The Architecture of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Denise Amy Baxter and Meredith Miller (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010.
  • “Women of the Palace: Versailles 1682-1721″ in Servants of the Dynasty: Women of the World Palaces. Edited by Anne Walthall( Berkeley, CA.:University of California Press, 2008), 191-215.