“Illegitimacy” as a mass phenomenon. Unmarried mothers and their children in the 19th century

“非婚生”是一种大众现象。

• 批准号: 417228542
• 负责人: Privatdozentin Dr. Karin Orth
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Historisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/417228542?language=en
• 关键词: Illegitimacy; mass; phenomenon.; Unmarried; mothers

One of the most striking demographic changes in Europe in the early 19th century was the growing number of children that were born out of wedlock. The rates increased from 2 to 4%, in parts to over 20%, locally more than 60%. While the structural causes for this have been extensively researched, a social and cultural-historical examination of the "illegitimacy" as a mass phenomenon is lacking, so far. The proposed examination is meant to provide that. It intends to analyze the phenomenon of massive illegitimate births for Southwest Baden and the Swiss city Basel; however, instead of the classic structural history, the study will focus on the practices, experiences, and consequences of "illegitimacy". It will reveal the yet unexamined, fundamentally different forms of “illegitimacy”: the rural "illegitimacy" in the higher altitudes of the Black Forest, the migration of unmarried mothers with their children from the southwestern region of Baden into the USA and to Basel, and the microcosm of "illegitimacy" in the Basel hospital (Spital) and in the city of Basel. There also emerges a so far unrecognized network of trading in non-legitimate children of southwest Baden mothers, which took place in the Basel/Southwest Baden border region.

19世纪初欧洲最显着的人口变化之一是非婚生儿童数量的不断增加。税率从2%上升到4%，部分地区上升到20%以上，局部上升到60%以上。虽然其结构性原因已得到广泛研究，但迄今为止，还缺乏对作为一种大众现象的“非婚生性”进行社会和文化历史考察。拟议的审查旨在提供这一点。旨在分析巴登西南部和瑞士城市巴塞尔的大规模非婚生现象；然而，该研究将重点关注“非法性”的实践、经验和后果，而不是经典的结构历史。它将揭示尚未审视的、根本不同的“私生子”形式：黑森林高海拔地区的农村“私生子”，未婚母亲带着孩子从西南巴登地区移民到美国和巴塞尔，以及巴塞尔医院（Spital）和巴塞尔市“私生子”的缩影。在巴塞尔/巴登西南部边境地区还出现了一个迄今未被承认的巴登西南母亲非婚生子女交易网络。