Contested paternity : constructing families in modern France / Rachel G. Fuchs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuchs, Rachel G., 1939-2016.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paternity--France--History.

Paternity.

Parent and child (Law)--France--History.

Parent and child (Law).

Domestic relations courts--France--History.

Domestic relations courts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 353 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on paternity as a category of family history, Contested Paternity emphasizes the importance of fatherhood, the family, and the law within the greater context of changing attitudes toward parental responsibility.

Contents:

Families and the social order from the old regime to the Civil Code

Seduction and courtroom encounters in the nineteenth century

Find the fathers, save the children, 1870-1912

Courts attribute paternity, 1912-1940

Families dismantled and reconstituted, 1880-1940

Paternity and families, 1940 to the present.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-343) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9816-1

OCLC:

593242664

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08818 hdl