Good girls get paternity typing, bad girls don’t: an analysis of gendered uses of genetic tests in a judicial context

In this seminar I will present some of the main findings that I achieved through a case study of the Portuguese courts’ use of blood tests and DNA profiling to determine the paternity of any child in the course of paternity suits. The main aim is to show how paternity investigation is a mean of cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Machado, Helena (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/5122
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/5122