Domestic Intimacies: Incest & the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth Century America

Event time: 
Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 5:00pm
Location: 
HGS Rm 211 See map
York St
Event description: 

Brian Connolly, University of South Florida

Why did the emergence of the liberal subject in the nineteenth-century United States occasion a crisis in and reconstitution of the incest prohibition? How did the nuclear family become normative as a result of this moment in the history of incest?  This talk will address these questions in the realms of law, reproduction, and anthropology.

- See more at: http://yrihs.yale.edu/event/domestic-intimacies-incest-and-liberal-subje…

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public