Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America /

In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses, shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analyzing more than 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sager, Robin C., 1981- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Spousal abuse.
Social conditions.
Marriage.
Marital violence.
Divorce.
Divorce > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Violence entre conjoints > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mariage > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Divorce > United States > History > 19th century.
Marital violence > United States > History > 19th century.
Spousal abuse > United States > History > 19th century.
Marriage > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1865.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • "As much pain as blows and kicks" : the verbal cruelties of husbands and wives
  • "A kind of hell upon earth" : the physical cruelties of husbands and wives
  • "Every twenty-four hours and almost every day" : sexual mistreatment
  • "The poison that maddened his brain" : drunkenness and neglect
  • "I did not come to quarrel" : community responses to perceived abuses
  • Conclusion.

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