124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Fathers of Illegitimate Children in Public Policy and the Courts: Chile, Brazil, and the Anglophone Caribbean from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty First Centuries

Fathers of Illegitimate Children in Public Policy and the Courts: Chile, Brazil, and the Anglophone Caribbean from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty First Centuries

AHA Session 133
Conference on Latin American History 25

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Marina Ballroom Salon F (Marriott)

Chair:

William E. French, University of British Columbia

Papers:

Hijos y Ajenos: Filiation in Nineteenth-Century Chilean Legal and Social Practice
Nara Milanich, Barnard College, Columbia University

Illegitimacy and Self Government: Family, Poverty, and Moral Reform before West Indies Royal Commission, 1938–40
Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh

Paternity Suits, Child Support, and the Dynamics of Relationships between Fathers and Natural Children in Brazil before the Era of DNA Testing, 1920s–70s
Sueann Caulfield, University of Michigan

When Technology, Law, and Family Converge: Rethinking Questions of Filiation, Gender, and Generation in Connection with DNA Paternity Tests
Claudia Fonseca, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Comment:

William E. French, University of British Columbia

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