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Sylvia Schafer

Associate Professor

 

Office: Wood Hall, Room 223
Phone: (860) 486-3998
Fax: (860) 486-0641
Email:sylvia.schafer@uconn.edu

Areas of Specialty

Modern European political and cultural history, France, law, sexual difference, sexuality and feminist theory

Current Research Interests

 

 
Selected Publications

"Admitting the Stranger: The Rule of Law, The Ethics of Medical Hospitality and the Borders of Governmental Imagination in Nineteenth-Century France,"  Law/Text/Culture 2001, 341-375. 

"Between Paternal Right and the `Dangerous' Mother: Reading Parental Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century French Civil Justice," Journal of Family History 23, no.2 (April 1998). 

Children in "Moral Danger"and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France.  Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

(With Merry Wiesner). European History: Discipline Analysis. Women in the Curriculum Essay Series. Baltimore: National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women, 1997

      
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