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Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson

Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1940–2019) was an American sociologist and scholar of French culture who taught at Columbia University and previously at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her books, including The Battle of the Bourgeois, Literary France, Paris as Revolution, Accounting for Taste, and Word of Mouth, explored literature, urban culture, and French cuisine as forms of culture and social life.

Gloversville, New York, USA Jan 1, 1940
sociology cultural studies French studies
Word of Mouth: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food
Word of Mouth: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food
2014
 Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City
Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City
1994