About
Sylvie Steinberg is a historian of the French Ancien Régime, director of studies at EHESS, and a member of the Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH, EHESS/CNRS). She has published La Confusion des sexes. Le travestissement de la Renaissance à la Révolution (Fayard, 2001); Une tache au front. La bâtardise aux xvie et xviie siècle (Albin Michel, 2016).
Latest publication
Agency: tracing a rebel concept (1963-2025)
- By Fabio Giomi,
- Didier Lett
- and Sylvie Steinberg
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2025/1 n° 61)
Most viewed articles
Agency: tracing a rebel concept (1963-2025)
- By Fabio Giomi,
- Didier Lett
- and Sylvie Steinberg
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2025/1 n° 61)
Reading and interpreting accounts of rape in the criminal archives (early modern Europe)
- By Sylvie Steinberg,
- Translated by Andrew Rubens
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2020/2 No 52)
Parenting Norms: Establishing Patterns and Rules (18th–19th Centuries)
- By Julie Doyon,
- Lorraine Odier Da Cruz,
- Anne-Françoise Praz
- et al.
In Annales de démographie historique (2013/1 No 125)
“In the Absence of Males”
Gender, Feudal Succession, and Nobiliary Ideology in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France
- By Sylvie Steinberg,
- Translated from the French by Brian Horihan
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2012/3 67th Year)
Sexual violence at the centre of intimate life
- By Didier Lett,
- Sylvie Steinberg,
- Fabrice Virgili,
- et al.
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2020/2 No 52)
Journey
Feminism and Feminist History (1992)
- By Catherine Hall,
- Translated from english by Geneviève Knibiehler,
- edited by Siân Reynolds
- et al.
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2025/1 n° 61)
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Articles
Agency: tracing a rebel concept (1963-2025)
- By Fabio Giomi,
- Didier Lett
- and Sylvie Steinberg
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2025/1 n° 61)
Journey
Feminism and Feminist History (1992)
- By Catherine Hall,
- Translated from english by Geneviève Knibiehler,
- edited by Siân Reynolds
- et al.
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2025/1 n° 61)
Reading and interpreting accounts of rape in the criminal archives (early modern Europe)
- By Sylvie Steinberg,
- Translated by Andrew Rubens
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2020/2 No 52)
Editorial
Sexual violence at the centre of intimate life
- By Didier Lett,
- Sylvie Steinberg,
- Fabrice Virgili,
- et al.
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2020/2 No 52)
And the Bastards Became Citizens
The Privatization of a Condition of Infamy under the French Revolution
In Genèses (2017/3 No 108)
Introduction
- By Leora Auslander,
- Sylvie Steinberg,
- Translated by Siân Reynolds
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2016/2 No 44)
André Burguière & Bernard Vincent (ed.), Un siècle d’historiennes
Paris, Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque, 2014, 350 p.
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2016/1 No 43)
The Anthropologist, the Doctors and the Transgender Experience: An Interview with Laurence Hérault
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2013/1 No. 37)
Parenting Norms: Establishing Patterns and Rules (18th–19th Centuries)
- By Julie Doyon,
- Lorraine Odier Da Cruz,
- Anne-Françoise Praz
- et al.
In Annales de démographie historique (2013/1 No 125)
“In the Absence of Males”
Gender, Feudal Succession, and Nobiliary Ideology in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France
- By Sylvie Steinberg,
- Translated from the French by Brian Horihan
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2012/3 67th Year)
