Professor David Sabean, "Marital Discourse in Europe and America from the Baroque to the Romantics"
November 15 , 2004; 7:00 pm | Simmons Center 309, CofC Campus |FREE and open to the public.
Sponsored by the College of Charleston History Department and the Women's Studies Program.
Professor Sabean is the author of several innovative works that bridge the gap between social history and cultural anthropology, including Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 1984), Property, Production and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1990), and Kinship in Neckarhausen 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1998). His most recent work attempts to rethink the categories of an earlier generation of social historians through more recent notions from cultural studies. He argues for the analytical usefulness of "kinship" and "class" for European history and suggests that rethinking both in terms of gender refits them for fresh ways of seeing historical issues. Sabean is now currently working on two projects: a study of narrativity in bureaucratic writing and a comparative analysis of marital discourse in Europe and America since the sixteenth century.