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American child bride : a history of minors and marriage in the United States /
Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking history of youthful marriage in America. Focusing on young women and girls--the most co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Any maid or woman child : a new nation and its marriage laws
- The child was to be his wife : patterns of youthful marriage in antebellum America
- Wholly unfit for the marriage condition : Parton v. Hervey and struggles over age of consent laws
- The great life-long mistake : women's rights advocates and the feminist critique of early marriage
- My little girl wife : the transformation of childhood and marriage in the late nineteenth century
- I did and I don't regret it : child marriage and the contestation of childhood, 1880-1925
- Marriage reform is still an unplowed field : reformers target child marriage during the 1920s
- Marriage comes early in the mountains : the persistence of child marriage in the rural South
- Are they marrying too young? The teenage marriage "crisis" of the postwar years
- There was no stopping her : teen marriage continues in rural America
- Epilogue.