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Buying a Bride : An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches /
There have always been mail-order brides in America--but we haven't always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called "Tobacco Wives" of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today's modern same-sex mail-order g...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Lonely colonist seeks wife
- The filles du roi
- Corrections girls and casket girls
- Well disposed toward the ladies : mail-order brides go west
- Advertising for love : the rise of matrimonial advertisements
- Wanted : correspondence
- Marriage at the border
- Mail-order feminism
- Conclusion.