Séminaire Patriarcat et héritage. Propriété, répartition et transmission dans l'Europe moderne

Netta GREEN (Princeton University): "Les filles du premier empire : héritage, surveillance et alliances matrimoniales"
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Netta Green is a doctoral candidate in the History department, where I study the cultural and intellectual history of Early Modern France. Her Dissertation, titled “Before Kinship: Inheritance, Families and the Social Sciences in France, 1789–1850,” traces the study of the family in France from the French Revolution through the first half of the nineteenth century. Taking the fraught debates about succession during the French Revolution as its point of departure, the project examines how questions of inheritance permeated the emerging social sciences in France, becoming key to nineteenth-century social engineering, ethnographic literature and population control. By exploring the methods that were developed inside and outside of the household to manage inheritance and plan for one’s future, the dissertation explores how intimate familial stories or secretive inheritance struggles merged with nineteenth-century social-scientific positivism in the intellectual landscape of post-revolutionary France.
More broadly, her research interests include the history of knowledge-making, historical epistemology, and the history of genetics and genealogies. Prior to starting at Princeton, she received an M.A. in History, summa cum laude, from Tel-Aviv University, where her thesis explored the concept of nature in women’s writing during the French Enlightenment. In 2019–2020, she was a visiting student at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, as well as a visiting researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).