Kristin Elizabeth Gager
Biographic Data
| ID | 5202313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Elizabeth Gager |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Gager |
| SIGNATURE | GAGER K E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Blood Ties and Fictive Ties
In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and legal authorities on the grounds that it disrupted family blood lines. In fact, historians have assumed that adoption had generally not been practiced in France or in the rest of Europe since late antiquity. Challenging this view, Kristin Gager brings to light evidence showing how married couples and sing…
Women, Adoption, and Family Life in Early Modern Paris
This article examines a series of notarized contracts that describe adoptions of daughters and sons as heirs undertaken by "independent" women in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Paris. Despite concrete legal barriers against adoption, a general cultural rejection of adoptive kinship, and the centrality of a patriarchal model of the family, widows, separated women, unmarried women, and even a deserted wife turned to "adoptive reproduction" to c…
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Blood Ties and Fictive Ties
In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and legal authorities on the grounds that it disrupted family blood lines. In fact, historians have assumed that adoption had generally not been practiced in France or in the rest of Europe since late antiquity. Challenging this view, Kristin Gager brings to light evidence showing how married couples and sing…
Women, Adoption, and Family Life in Early Modern Paris
This article examines a series of notarized contracts that describe adoptions of daughters and sons as heirs undertaken by "independent" women in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Paris. Despite concrete legal barriers against adoption, a general cultural rejection of adoptive kinship, and the centrality of a patriarchal model of the family, widows, separated women, unmarried women, and even a deserted wife turned to "adoptive reproduction" to c…
Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Family ties (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Genealogy (1 work) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (1 work) · History (1 work)