Leslie Tuttle

Contact Information Phone: (785) 864-9455 Office: 3637 Wescoe Email: ltuttle@ku.edu

Asst. Prof., Hist. and Hum. (Ph.D. Princeton 2000, M.A. Princeton 1992 ) History of women and gender, feminism, family, sexuality, the history of France, and European social and cultural history.

Professor Tuttle's current research focuses on the role of gender and sexuality in the solidification and centralization of royal power in seventeenth and eighteenth-century France. The book project she is working on, tentatively titled "Sacred and Politic Unions: Natalist Policy in Absolutist France," examines Old Regime policies that accorded privileged status to men who married and fathered large families. Connecting the policy to absolutist and patriarchal political theories, the study also emphasizes the ways that men and women interacted with government officials and sought to turn meddling in their familial and sexual lives to their own benefit. She teaches courses on women's history, the history of sexuality, European history, and Western Civilization.