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Childhood in the Jewish History of Southern Ukraine in 1919–1920: Family Experience of Violence during the Pogroms Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Natalia Kuzovova
The article focuses on how the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1919–1920 affected Jewish children through the lens of family history. It explores demographic data and factors that influenced children and families in Southern Ukraine during that period. The article attempts to reconstruct the children's experience through their parents’ testimonies and the memories of individuals who endured the anti-Jewish
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Book Review: Small Stories of War: Children, Youth, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond by Lorenzkowski Barbara, Kristine Alexander, and Andrew Burtch Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Nisrine Rahal
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“There Is No Place Like a Happy Home”: Information Wanted Notices, the Christian Recorder, and the Search for Missing Family Members in Post-Emancipation America Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Rebecca J. Fraser
This article considers the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) newspaper, the Christian Recorder's publication of the formerly enslaved “Information Wanted” advertisements through the mid-1860s to turn of the century as a means through which the AME promoted the ideal of the “family” as positive models for Blacks themselves, also challenging white prejudices concerning family life of the formerly enslaved
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The Exit Option: Agency and Divorce in Late Eighteenth-Century America Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Bartholomew Sparrow
Thousands of husbands placed advertisements in colonial newspapers announcing that their wives had deserted them and rejecting responsibility for their wives’ debts. Yet few scholars have studied “runaway wives.” This article argues the notices evidenced wives’ agency in a sexist and socially conservative eighteenth-century America, agency that took the form of “exit,” “voice,” and “loyalty,” to follow
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Household Change and Related Demographic and Social Indicators in Botswana During 1971–2011 Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Oleosi Ntshebe
This article examines household change and related demographic and social factors in Botswana during the last 40 years (1971–2011). The analysis uses data from five Botswana censuses and three nationally representative surveys: the 1988 Botswana Standard Demographic Health Survey (BSDHS), the 2000 Multiple Indicator Survey (MICS) and the 2007 Botswana Family Health Surveys (BFHS). Overall, the analysis
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Book Review: Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan by Zamira Abman Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Colette Harris
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The End of Love in the Seventeenth Century: Certainty and Uncertainty in Courtship Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Paul Borenberg
This article examines the emotional landscape of courtship and engagements in seventeenth-century Sweden. By using a framework by Illouz, understanding courtship as a cultural technique aimed at creating certainty in socially risky situations, the courtship of two women by one student is examined. The analysis moves from the intimate interactions of the couple to the family, the community and lastly
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Book Review: Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania: Gender, Law and Society by Leinartė, Dalia Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Valdemaras Klumbys
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Why Women Get Divorced in Bangladesh: Exploring Individualism and Other Factors Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Md Tariqul Islam Tanvir, Shafi Md Mostofa
Globally, marriage breakup or divorce has become a significant issue, and Bangladesh is no exception. The divorce rate among urban women has dramatically increased in Bangladesh, particularly in Dhaka City. This study aims to uncover the factors contributing to the rising divorce rate among women in Dhaka. Utilizing desk-based research and expert interviews, it critically examines the causes of marriage
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Rethinking Consanguineous Marriages in a Diasporic Setting: A Case Study of ar-Rashidiyya Kinship Community in Germany Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Mahmoud Jaraba
This article explores the changing landscape of consanguineous marriages among Germany's ar-Rashidiyya community, originally from Turkey's Mardin province. The study employs ethnographic methods to understand how younger members are questioning entrenched marital norms, influenced by factors like migration, education, familial conflicts, individualism, and health concerns. Challenging misconceptions
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Book Review: Sex and the Married Girl: Heterosexual Marriage and the Body in Postwar Canada by Stanley, Heather Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Magda Fahrni
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Book Review: Republican Passions: Family, Friendship and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France by Foley, Susan K. Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira
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Book Review: Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific by Hendrix-Komoto, Amanda Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Matthew L. Harris
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Book Review: Strangers in the Family. Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia by Seng Guo-Quan Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Kirsten Kamphuis
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Middle-class Fathers, Sons, and Mental Illness in Late Victorian and Edwardian England Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Laura Ugolini
This article explores the impact of mental illness on the relationship between middle-class fathers and sons in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. Using sources that include autobiographies, oral histories, press reports of violence, and records of appeals against conscription, the article argues that shame was not the dominant reaction. Many mentally ill men lost masculine status
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The Bezbaroa Household of Colonial Calcutta: Microcosm of Changing Family Dynamics Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Gitashree Tamuly
Against the backdrop of colonial India, this study examines the Bezbaroa family, specifically focusing on the marriage of Lakshminath Bezbaroa, a prominent Assamese writer, to Prajnasundari Devi of the renowned Tagore family of Bengal. Their seemingly disparate backgrounds offer a unique vantage point to explore the complex interplay between tradition and modernity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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An Unbeloved Heir? A Reassessment of Louis the Stammerer's Role in the Last Years of Charles the Bald's Reign and its Implications for Understanding Carolingian Rule Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Fraser McNair
The father–son relationship between Charles the Bald and his eldest son Louis the Stammerer is generally understood as one of hostility and distrust. This article takes several episodes from the final decades of Charles the Bald's reign to question this, re-examining how royal Carolingian fathers and royal Carolingian sons could take steps to overcome previous conflicts and arguing that political ties
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Marriage in Politics, Politics in Marriage: A Transylvanian Parliamentary Representative's Kinship Networks at Political Turning Points Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Ovidiu-Emil Iudean
The present study explores the other, less visible facet of marriage and politics, namely the way in which the latter shaped and contributed to the former. Through a close reading of an extensive c...
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Selfless Subjectivities that (Re)Build the Nation: Remaking the “Modern Turkish Woman” in the Early Republican Period in Türkiye Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Dikmen Yakalı, Bora Ataman
This study explores the newly constructed female identities of the Early Republican Era in Türkiye (1923–1945). Through a thematic analysis of three contemporary women's magazines (Aile Dostu, Ev-İ...
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Postmodern Queering of Family in 101 Reykjavik Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Mads Larsen
In the postmodern 1990s, LGBT families were portrayed as pioneers for new family forms and processes of individualization. The queer viewpoint was that of a socially beneficial vanguard that could ...
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Debating Social Change and the Jewish Nation: The Polish-Jewish Weekly Ewa on Jewish Families and Birth Control (1928–1933) Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Heidi Hein-Kircher
The objectives of the debates on birth control and thus of the concepts of family planning had changed in East Central Europe after World War I as a result of the founding of nation states. The res...
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Family Conceptions at the Intersection of Feminism, Public Health, and Nationalism in Czechoslovakia (1918–1939) Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Denisa Nešt‘áková
Even the seemingly liberal Czechoslovak political elites were anxious about the notion of depopulation, and feared the death of the nation, which led them to disregard the societal need for moderni...
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Population Crisis in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Building up a Healthy Family Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Barbora Jakobyová
A population problem represented by the declining birth rate came to the focus of experts’ and politicians’ attention in interwar Czechoslovakia. Significant activities concerning the decrease in q...
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The Family as “Best Weapon.” Instrumentalizing German Health Care Discourses in Upper Silesia During the Interwar Period Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Elisa-Maria Hiemer
Pro-German family and health policies were, at their core, anti-Polish measures that cleared the path for later racially determined politics. The sources demonstrate how these policies were justifi...
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Birth Control as a National Challenge: Nationalizing Concepts of Families in Eastern Europe 1914–1939 Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Heidi Hein-Kircher, Elisa-Maria Hiemer
Providing the conceptional framework of the special issue and discussing its main hypotheses, the introductory article points out that extraordinary vivid discourses on birth control in journalism ...
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“Quantity Itself Generates Quality”: Family Conceptions Between Catholicism, Nationalism, and Eugenics in Slovakia in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Miloslav Szabó
This study deals with the intersections but also the unrelenting tension between the Catholic Church und politics and efforts to regulate society through eugenics in order to heal it in the context...
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Marriage, Family Planning, and Birth Control Discourses in Latvia during the Wars, 1914–1920 Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Ineta Lipša
In the territories of the Russian Empire populated by the Latvians, the years of the First World War (1914–1918) and the ensuing Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920) witnessed a significant tran...
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The Role of Women as Agents and Beneficiaries in the Hungarian Family Planning System (1914–1944) Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Fanni Svégel
The article outlines the developments in the national concept of family planning with particular reference to the female agents of healthcare and social policy measures from the turn of the century...
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Experiences of Misattributed Parentage Communities: Impacts of Discovering New Familial Kinships Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Bessie L. Lawton, Laura C. Pyott, Kara Rubinstein Deyerin, Anita K. Foeman
Finding out about misattributed parentage experiences often leads to identity shock and new medical histories. Many individuals learn about new genetic family members through direct-to-consumer DNA...
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Between Economy and Social Coercion: Nuptiality in Transition. The Case of the Don Army Territory (Southern Russia), 1867–1916 Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Noël Bonneuil, Elena Fursa
The nuptiality transition in the Don Army Territory 1867–1916 depended on residence, economy, and religion. In rural areas, population growth and the scarcity of good land undermined the Orthodox t...
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A Realpolitik of Ethics. Behind the Specificity of the French ART System (1972–1994) Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Fabrice Cahen
This paper provides a fresh look at the specificity of French ART rules. Re-exploring the genesis of sperm banks and the emergence of ART regulation in the 1970s and 80s involves considering a sequ...
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The Crusading Furnivals: Family Tradition, Political Expediency and Social Pressure in Crusade Motivation Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 James Doherty
By the mid-thirteenth century, many aristocratic families across Europe could lay claim to crusading ancestors, and scholarship has revealed the importance of family tradition in maintaining the mo...
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Mapping the Household State: Treatment of Disobedient Children in Early Modern Denmark and Sweden Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Karin Hassan Jansson, Nina Javette Koefoed
This article offers a comparative analysis of the early modern Danish and Swedish Household state in relation to the treatment of “disobedient” children. It uses law codes and court records to expl...
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How Silence Became “Outdated”: Secrecy, Anonymity and Artificial Insemination by Donor in Belgium, 1950s-1990s Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Tinne Claes
This article for the first time places the issues of secrecy and anonymity in donor conception in historical perspective. It relates the gradual move away from secrecy to the growing importance att...
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Same-sex Marriage Over 26 Years: Marriage and Divorce Trends in Rural and Urban Norway Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Rune Zahl-Olsen, Frode Thuen
The trends in marriage and divorce among male and female same-sex couples in urban and rural Norway were compared to different-sex marriages. Norway legalized same-sex living in 1993 and marriage i...
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Demographic Transition and the Industrial Revolution in England: Inverse Rural and Urban Processes Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Dov Friedlander, Barbara S. Okun
We present a model of 19th Century population change in England & Wales. The model highlights contrasting demographic and economic processes in rural and urban sectors as core explanations for rural to urban migration, stemming from labor surpluses in the former and labor shortages in the latter. This massive migration transformed the geographic distribution of the population, in tandem with the economic
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“The Women's National Abortion Action Coalition & the Abortion Tribunals, 1971–1972” Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Katherine Parkin
The Women's National Abortion Action Coalition organized for abortion rights, an end to forced sterilization, and accessible birth control. From its formation in July 1971 to its demise with the January 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, it was an inclusive, far-reaching network that spearheaded the call for reproductive justice. Assembling a coalition, including high school and college students and those
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Book review: The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria by Robin P. Chapdelaine Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 S.E. Duff
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Professors Down the Aisle: Academic Marriage Patterns in the Seventeenth Century Dutch Republic Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Leonie Price, Manuel Llano
Misogamist discourse prevailed among western European early modern scholars. This article examines whether misogamist discourse translated into behaviour in the Dutch Republic. We identify marriage trends of professors employed by the universities of Leiden and Utrecht in the seventeenth century, using quantitative and qualitative approaches. We analysed a prosopographical dataset of professors and
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Book Review: Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937–1951 by Karl D. Qualls Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Daniel Kowalsky
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Book Review: Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother by Marga Vicedo Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Kim E. Nielsen
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Book Review: Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence by Lisa McClain Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Lisa McClain
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Corrigendum to Social Cohesion and Resilience in First Australian Family and Kinship Networks Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-21
Karen O’Brien, “Social Cohesion and Resilience in First Australian Family and Kinship Networks,” Journal of Family History 42:4 (2017), 440-451, DOI 10.1177/0363199017725347
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Book Review: An Elite Family in Early Modern England: The Temples of Stowe and Burton Bassett 1570–1656 by O’Day, Rosemary Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Linda A. Pollock
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The Family as a Locus of Illness: Secrecy, Suffering, and Institutional Practices Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Marie Meier, Karen Vallgårda
The family has long played a key role in the perception, interpretation, and treatment of mental illness across Europe and North America. Yet, historical studies of psychiatry tend to neglect the complex relationship between psychiatric institutions, patients, and their families. Using a Danish nerve sanatorium as a case, this article traces the shifting meanings attached to the family and the home
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Introduction: The Politics of Family Secrecy Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Karen Vallgårda
Histories of family secrecy are often emotionally, morally, and politically ambivalent. They entail fear, shame, pain, and repression, but they also often involve with solicitude, tenderness, and degrees of tolerance. This special issue takes secrecy practices as a lens through which to examine the emotionally charged micropolitics of the family and its intertwinements with macropolitical currents
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Book Review: Women of the Country House in Ireland, 1860–1914 by Maeve O’Riordan Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Keelin Burke
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Selling Anonymity: The Market for Secrecy Around Illegitimate Births Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Johanna Sjöberg, Johanna Sköld
Giving birth out of wedlock was associated for centuries with shame, economic burden, and secrecy. Unmarried pregnant women could escape stigma by travelling away from home and purchasing a confinement elsewhere. They could hide there when the pregnancy started to show, give birth, have their children adopted or sent to foster care, and then return home. This article explores the social economy of
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Who am I? The Politics of Lying, Not Knowing and Truth-Telling in the West German History of Child Adoption Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Bettina Hitzer
This article traces the history of the West German debate about whether, how, and why adoptive parents should or should not tell their children the truth about their origins. Concepts of biological and social parenthood, family, parental love, and the maternal bond play a role in this context, as does the ensuing legal discussion on full and partial adoption, anonymous adoption, and finally the novel
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Left on a Doorstep: The Role of Infant Abandonment in Preserving and Exposing Family Secrets in Australia 1834–1954 Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Shurlee Swain
Based on a database of Australian cases from 1834–1954, this article argues that abandonment was an intentional strategy intended to maximise a child's chances of survival while preserving its family's reputation. However, abandonment had the potential to expose family secrets, bringing them into the public gaze and subjecting them to interrogation. Abandonment was also used for revenge, exposing the
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Aunting as Family Shadow-Work Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Ashley Barnwell
Women have long been known as family kin-keepers, sources of knowledge about family histories. Yet little has been written on the role of aunts within families, and more specifically on aunts’ domain over sensitive or secret family information. This paper develops the concept of family shadow-work to analyse labours that are unseen yet essential to family life. To do this it explores aunting practices
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Book Review: Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia: From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin by Barbara Alpern Engel Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Alison Rowley
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Fornication and Illegitimacy in Reformation Geneva: Cases from the Consistory, 1542–1558 Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Carolyn Corretti
This article examines cases of fornication and illegitimacy as they were regulated by the Genevan Consistory, a morals discipline court that John Calvin created in 1541 to eradicate sin from the community. We argue that ordinary people failed to live up to the moral standards of Calvinist reformers as they practiced illicit sex and had bastard children. The authorities did their best to correct such
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Till Death Do Us Part: Laborers’ Marriage Practices in Late Victorian New Zealand Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Delwyn Blondell
What happened to marriage patterns within the British Empire's colonies where more opportunity existed for breaks with past norms? This paper, drawn from research into a group of laborers known as Brogdens’ Navvies who emigrated to New Zealand in 1872 and 1873, argues that working people conformed with social expectations around marriage until legal and economic constraints forced them into alternative
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Understanding Divorce Trends and Risks: The Case of Norway 1886–2018 Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Rune Zahl-Olsen
Divorces have become common, but reliable longer-run historical data with several years of follow-up are scarce. This study investigates divorce trends and divorce risk based on prospective data for all Norwegian different-sex marriages formed from 1886–2018, with yearly follow-up continuing until 60 years after the wedding (N = 2.7 million). First marriages and remarriages are investigated separately
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‘Going her Own Road’: The Tortured Path to Economic Independence in Late Colonial New South Wales Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Marian Lorrison
Feminist historians have long recognised the symbiotic relationship between personal autonomy and a woman's capacity to earn her own living. This paper draws on legal and press documentation to examine how one woman navigated the difficult path of wage-earning during the 1890s. It argues that Catherine Kirchner saw herself as an autonomous economic entity and conducted herself with equal autonomy within
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Book Review: On the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive by Tison Pugh Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Mario DiGangi
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Book Review: Countless Blessings: A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel by Barbara MacGowan Cooper Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Shobana Shankar
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A Quest for Roots and Kinship: Family History in the Television Series Allt För Sverige (The Great Swedish Adventure) Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Ann-Sofie Klareld
This paper considers the contemporary significance of family history and, more generally, cross-national heritage by studying a Swedish television programme in which Swedish Americans visit Sweden to find out more about their ancestors and possibly to meet present-day relatives. Saar’s theory of three levels of genealogy—history, evaluation, and genre—is used as the analytical framework. The findings
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“Bigamists” in Bologna, 1350–1500 Journal of Family History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Trevor Dean
Bigamy trials in medieval secular courts were rare and rarely documented. Where they do survive, they raise interesting questions about the relation between penal law and social practice, about knowledge of church laws on the legitimate forms and processes of marriage, and about gendered aspects of how this crime was perceived, prosecuted and punished. The incomparable riches of the criminal court