Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France Hardcover - 2008
by Rachel G. Fuchs
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Winner, J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical Association
Winner, Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians
Winner, Charles E. Smith Award, European History section of the Southern Historical Association
This groundbreaking study examines complex notions of paternity and fatherhood in modern France through the lens of contested paternity. Drawing from archival judicial records on paternity suits, paternity denials, deprivation of paternity, and adoption from the end of the eighteenth century through the twentieth, Rachel G. Fuchs reveals how paternity was defined and how it functioned in the culture and experiences of individual men and women.
A masterpiece in French social, cultural, and gender history.--Lenard Berlanstein, University of Virginia
Fuchs opens up a new window into the history of families by perceptively examining the legal and customary ways that paternity was negotiated in French society from the old regime to the present.--Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University
Fascinating in every particular . . . One of the most important aspects of Contested Paternity is the way in which Fuchs uses the history of paternity suits as a way to analyze changing attitudes towards fatherhood, motherhood, and childhood.--H-France
A compelling study that examines the epochal shift in French fatherhood over the past two centuries.--American Historical Review
A tour de force on the history of family law in France from the eighteenth century to modern times.--French Studies
Fuchs's treatment of the theme of constructions of paternity is stimulating, clear, and yet highly refined . . . With her considerable methodological expertise as a social historian of France, she weaves an exceedingly colorful picture of disputes around paternity.--French History
Rachel G. Fuchs is a professor of history at Arizona State University.
--Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University "Journal of Law and History Review"Details
- Title Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France
- Author Rachel G. Fuchs
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
- Date 2008-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780801888328 / 0801888328
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 1.2 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: French
- Sex & Gender: Masculine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Paternity - France - History, Parent and child (Law) - France - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007040084
- Dewey Decimal Code 346.440
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Citations
- Choice, 06/01/2009, Page 0
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 08/08/2008, Page 17
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2008, Page 202
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