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Paternity and Fatherhood

Myths and Realities

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  • © 1998

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  1. Lieve Spaas

    1. Kingston University, UK

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Mythical Constructs and Social Realities

      • Lieve Spaas
      Pages 1-11

  3. Biological Paternity in Law and Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Heredity and Paternity

      • Max Andréoli
      Pages 15-26

    3. The Paternal Role and the Napoleonic Code

      • Xavier Martin
      Pages 27-39

    4. DNA and the Stakes in Embodying Paternity

      • Carol Mossman
      Pages 40-48

    5. Factoring the Father

      • Christie McDonald
      Pages 49-61

    6. The Heredity of Power and Paternity of the Text in some Medieval Works

      • Yolande de Pontfarcy
      Pages 62-73

    7. Père and Mère: Unequals in Language

      • Philippe Bolusset
      Pages 74-82

  5. Reinventing Father

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Fatherhood in the Works of George Sand

      • Anna Szabó
      Pages 135-146

    3. Politics and Fatherhood in the African Novel: Le Chercheur d’Afriques by Henri Lopes

      • Patrick Corcoran
      Pages 147-158

    4. Loys Masson: Father as Text

      • Michaëla Mongelard
      Pages 159-166

    5. Il Papa, Sade’s Pater Beyond Compare

      • Béatrice Fink
      Pages 167-174

    6. Kafka’s ‘Papa’

      • Sander L. Gilman
      Pages 175-185
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What kind of connotation does the word 'father' have in everyday language? How have states and governments defined and manipulated the paternal role? What is a 'father-figure'? What can literature tell us about absent or overbearing fathers? How far is the cultural construct of fatherhood linked to biological paternity, and what is biological paternity? These are some of the questions explored through the chapters in this book, which together offer a fascinatingly complex view of fatherhood across the centuries.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kingston University, UK

    Lieve Spaas

About the editor

LIEVE SPAAS is Professor of French Cultural Studies at Kingston University. She has published on Rousseau and the eighteenth-century novel and is part of the CNRS Rousseau research team in Paris. Her socio-historical analysis of the correspondence of Catherine de Saint-Pierre to her brother Bernardin appeared in 1996, Lettres de Catherine de Saint-Pierre a son frère Bernardin. She is co-editor with Brian Stimpson of Robinson Crusoe: Myths and Metamorphoses, and is general editor of the `Cultural Studies Monographs' series with Berghahn Books.

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