Reconstructing the household : families, sex, and the law in the nineteenth-century South /
Based on literary and legal sources, this study reveals how legal contests involving women, children, African-Americans, and the poor of the 19th-century South led to a rethinking of families, sexuality, and the social order.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[1995]
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Colección: | Studies in legal history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The days beyond the flood
- Patriarchy and the law in the old South
- Sex crimes, sexuality, and the courts
- Keeping the child
- After the flood
- The transformation of southern legal culture, 1860-1880
- The evolution of contractual families
- The forces of persistence: race, blood, and gender
- Domestic governance in the new South.