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Paternity - The Elusive Quest for the Father (Hardcover)
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Paternity - The Elusive Quest for the Father (Hardcover)
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"In this rigorous and beautifully researched volume, Milanich
considers the tension between social and biological definitions of
fatherhood, and shows how much we still have to learn about what
constitutes a father." -Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the
Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity For most of
human history, the notion that paternity was uncertain appeared to
be an immutable law of nature. The unknown father provided
entertaining plotlines from Shakespeare to the Victorian novelists
and lay at the heart of inheritance and child support disputes. But
in the 1920s new scientific advances promised to solve the mystery
of paternity once and for all. The stakes were high: fatherhood has
always been a public relationship as well as a private one. It
confers not only patrimony and legitimacy but also a name,
nationality, and identity. The new science of paternity, with
methods such as blood typing, fingerprinting, and facial analysis,
would bring clarity to the conundrum of fatherhood-or so it
appeared. Suddenly, it would be possible to establish family
relationships, expose adulterous affairs, locate errant fathers,
unravel baby mix-ups, and discover one's true race and ethnicity.
Tracing the scientific quest for the father up to the present, with
the advent of seemingly foolproof DNA analysis, Nara Milanich shows
that the effort to establish biological truth has not ended the
quest for the father. Rather, scientific certainty has revealed the
fundamentally social, cultural, and political nature of paternity.
As Paternity shows, in the age of modern genetics the answer to the
question "Who's your father?" remains as complicated as ever.
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