
[CGED Seminar] The Empire of the Father: The Remaking of Patriarchal Family Government in the Nineteenth Century US
Tue, Oct 27
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Speaker: Dr Julia Bowes. Time: 7:30 p.m. HKT | 11:30 a.m. GMT | 7:30 a.m. EDT. Organised by the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity; supported by The Nineteenth-Century Research Cluster.
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Time & Location
Oct 27, 2020, 7:00 PM GMT+8
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About the Event
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Time: 7:30 p.m. HKT | 11:30 a.m. GMT | 7:30 a.m. EDT
Abstract
Since colonial times, the patriarch had been a pillar of state power in the United States. The state governed through the head of the household who was vested with the authority and discretion to govern his dependents, a form of government that William Blackstone famously dubbed the "empire of the father." The rise of the modern liberal state, however, directly challenged the powers of the patriarch by establishing a direct relationship between the state and household dependents. This talk offers the concept of paternal sovereignty as a new framework to understand domestic relations in the Anglo-American Victorian world. It explores the debates over the proper boundaries of paternal power that erupted in the mid-nineteenth century as the demands of abolitionists and women’s…