The Social Reproduction of Cultural Deviance: legal debates on illegitimacy in early-twentieth-century Bulgaria.
This article explores the formation and evolution of Bulgaria's first law on children born outside marriage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces the uneasy legal discourses surrounding the rise in illegitimate fertility in Bulgaria, and the path to the law's eventual amend...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 615 - 629 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2011
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| Sumario: | This article explores the formation and evolution of Bulgaria's first law on children born outside marriage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces the uneasy legal discourses surrounding the rise in illegitimate fertility in Bulgaria, and the path to the law's eventual amendment at the start of the Second World War. In particular, the article examines the legislators' arguments concerning local culture, issues of modernisation and ‘neo-traditionalism’, as well as the incorporation into Bulgarian legislation of prevailing cultural attitudes towards the ‘proper role’ of the family. |
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