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Rachel Fuchs
Rachel Fuchs

Rachel G. Fuchs is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History. She received her PhD in 1980 from Indiana University. Her six books on French and European history include, Abandoned Children in Nineteenth-Century France (1984), Poor and Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century (1992), Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870 - 1914 (1995), Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2005) and Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2004) (with Victoria Thompson). Her latest book, Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France was published in June 2008 by Johns Hopkins University Press. She is currently writing a book on abortion and community in urban Paris, with a tentative title, The Angel Makers of Mission Street: Abortion and Community in Modern France. In addition she has several articles on seduction, family and kinship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France. She is planning a future project dealing with family and property in France during the Occupation and Vichy regime (1940 - 1945). Her fellowships include those from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Camargo Foundation.

  • Abandoned Children

    December 25, 2012

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1889780.Abandoned_Children Abandoned Children: Foundlings and Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century France by Rachel G. Fuchs   Rachel G.…

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