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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bardaglio, Peter Winthrop (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
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.