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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bardaglio, Peter Winthrop (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
Series:Studies in legal history.
Subjects:
1865-1877
Domestic relations > Southern States > History.
Families > Southern States.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Familles > États-Unis (Sud)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
Domestic relations
Families
Social conditions
Gezinshuishoudingen.
Famille > Droit > États-Unis (sud) > 19e siècle.
Southern States > Social conditions.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Southern States
United States
États-Unis (sud) > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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