History of women in the United States. 3, Domestic relations and law : historical articles on women's lives and activities / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cott, Nancy F., editor, writer of foreword.

Series:

History of Women in the United States ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic relations--United States--History.

Domestic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (461 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Munich, [Germany] : K. G. Saur, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Domestic Relations and Law".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Preface

Introduction

Domestic Relations and Law

Women and Property in South Carolina: The Evidence from Marriage Settlements, 1730 to 1830 / SALMON, MARYLYNN

"Smiling Through Her Tears": Ante-Bellum Southern Women and Divorce / CENSER, JANE TURNER

The Political and Civil Status of Women in Georgia, 1783-1860 / BOATWRIGHT, ELEANOR M.

"An Act for the Relief of Females...": Divorce and the Changing Legal Status of Women in Tennessee, 1796-1860, Part I / GOODHEART, LAWRENCE B. / HANKS, NEIL / JOHNSON, ELIZABETH

"An Act far the Relief of Females...": Divorce and the Changing Legal Status of Women in Tennessee Part II / GOODHEART, LAWRENCE B. / HANKS, NEIL / JOHNSON, ELIZABETH

The Mississippi Married Women's Property Act of 1839 / MONCRIEF, SANDRA

Invisible Women: The Legal Fiction of Marital Unity in Nineteenth-Century America / BASCH, NORMA

Married Women's Property Law: 1800-1850 / CHUSED, RICHARD H.

Radical Reconstruction and the Property Rights of Southern Women / LEBSOCK, SUZANNE D.

Apart but Not Adrift: Wives, Divorce, and Independence in California, 1850-1890 / GRISWOLD, ROBERT L.

Law, Sex, Cruelty, and Divorce in Victorian America, 1840-1900 / GRISWOLD, ROBERT L.

Who Gets the Child? Custody, Guardianship, and the Rise of a Judicial Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century America / GROSSBERG, MICHAEL

Late Nineteenth Century Married Women's Property Law: Reception of the Early Married Women's Property Acts by Courts and Legislatures / CHUSED, RICHARD H.

Reynolds v. United States: Nineteenth-Century Forms of Marriage and the Status of Women / WEISBROD, CAROL / SHEINGORN, PAMELA

Divorce in the Progressive Era / O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.

The Pressure to Provide: Class, Consumerism, and Divorce in Urban America, 1880-1920 / MAY, ELAINE TYLER

Copyright Information

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 23, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110968941

3110968940

OCLC:

979751214