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Call for papers, CISH Joint Session, Stepfamilies: the Making and Remaking of Families, 16th to 19th centuries

Call for papers, CISH Joint SessionStepfamilies: the Making and Remaking of Families, 16th to 19th centuries, Poznan, Poland, 23-29 August 2020

Deadline 30 September 2019

Contact: worldstepfamilies@gmail.com

Gabriella Erdélyi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary & Lyndan Warner, Saint Mary’s University, Canada

Themes welcome:

1) world families and colonial contexts

2) kinship networks and inheritance strategies in stepfamilies and blended families

3) the roles of stepparents, parents and gendered structures of remarriage; relationships with the children in and out of the household

4) sibling relations – half-siblings (legitimate and illegitimate), stepsiblings, full siblings

5) representations in literature and art