Sylvia Schafer
| Hours | W 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Office | Wood Hall, Room 223 |
| Phone | (860) 486-3998 |
| Fax | (860) 486-0641 |
| sylvia.schafer@uconn.edu |
Areas of Specialty
Modern European political and cultural history, France, law, sexual difference, sexuality and feminist theory
Co-editor, History of the Present
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