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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780851303321

Autore

Fuchs Rachel Ginnis <1939->

Titolo

Contested paternity [[electronic resource] ] : constructing families in modern France / / Rachel G. Fuchs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8018-9816-1

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

346.4401/75

Soggetti

Paternity - France - History

Parent and child (Law) - France - History

Domestic relations courts - France - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.