Kate Gibson

Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma in England, 1660-1834

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Produktbeschreibung

Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, telling stories of individuals across the socio-economic scale. This vivid investigation of the meaning of illegitimacy gets to the heart of powerful inequalities in families, communities, and the state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 165mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780192867247
• ISBN-10: 0192867245
• Artikelnr.: 65956355

Autorenporträt

Kate Gibson is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Manchester. She is a social historian of family, gender, and sexuality in eighteenth-century Britain, with a particular interest in the relationship between family and social inequality. She studied history at the Universities of Oxford, York, and Sheffield, where she completed a PhD in 2018 funded by the Wolfson foundation. She has held fellowships at the University of Manchester, the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Archives, and the Huntington Library, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Context of Illegitimacy
2: Mothers and Fathers
3: Households, Surrogate Parents and Care
4: Lineage and Kinship
5: Education, Occupation and Marriage
6: Identification, Stigma and the Self
Conclusion