Mothers and fathers after the “biological truth”? Gender, inequalities and parental papers in the paternity investigation cases

Head Researcher: Helena Machado (CICS)

Project Team: António Amorim dos Santos, Susana Marques, Cíntia  Alves, Susana Dias da Silva, Alice Delerue Matos (CICS-UM)

Funding Institution: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

Objectives:  Understand how biotechnology  when achieves the “biological truth” of paternity, also produces effects in the setting of parental roles and identities and reproduces gender inequalities that violate the rights of women and children without a father legally recognized.

Duration: 2009-2012