Call for papers 2018: now closed

Deadline 30 September 2018

Conference Themes:


Counting stepfamilies – historical demography and the patterns of remarriage by widowed or divorced parents (ages of children, husband or wife and the second spouse, do stepchildren or 1st marriage children stay in the household? how is children’s life expectancy influenced by death of mother/father, remarriage of mother/father, presence of stepmother/stepfather and half-siblings, stepsiblings?)

•  inheritance and the position of children of  1st, 2nd or 3rd marriage beds  (half-siblings, stepsiblings) how does the legal and social position of heirs by marriage or remarriage compare to half-siblings outside of legal marriage (extramarital children by concubines, or premarital children brought into the marriage, or milk children)

•  stepfamily stories in  popular culture or cheap prints (fairy tales or religious stories such as Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael or the Golden Legend of Saint Anne and her three husbands or folktales such as Cinderella and Hachikazuki across cultures)

•  the role of step–parents in the raising of children, expectations, norms and practices

•  early modern stepfamilies in cultures with divorce and remarriage as well as widowhood

•  domestic arrangements (coresidence patterns) and household types (stem family, multigenerational family, single family, extended family, spouse and concurrent partners)

•  cultural exchanges between family members (the exchange of letters, children, visits, gifts); the dynamics of law and emotions in shaping stepfamily relations

visual sources of stepfamily life (funerary monuments, epitaph portraits, woodcuts and broadsheets, vernacular paintings of domestic life) 

Starting with the conference as a foundation for discussion, there are possibilities for some papers to be further developed and then published in the special issue of a journal (subject to peer review).

Potential contributors are welcome to contact us prior to submission to discuss possible topics, themes, regions.

Email: worldstepfamilies@gmail.com

Contact information, title & abstract (up to 500s words), short author profile
Gabriella Erdélyi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Momentum “Integrating Families” Research Group, Primary Investigator

Lyndan Warner, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada

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