Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France

by Rachel G. Fuchs

Book Overview

Winner, 2009 J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner, 2009 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women HistoriansWinner, 2008 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801898331
• ISBN13: 9780801898334
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher