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...

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Published in:	Women's History Review Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 615 - 629
Main Author:	Baloutzova, Svetla
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2011
Subjects:	Legal status of children of unmarried parents Illegitimacy Statutes Legislation Adoption laws Social norms History Bulgaria
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost