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Reconstructing the household : families, sex, and the law in the nineteenth-century South /

Main Author: Bardaglio, Peter Winthrop.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Series:Studies in legal history
Subjects:
Domestic relations > History. > Southern States
Families > Southern States.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Families > History. > Southern States
Southern States > Social conditions.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
Domestic relations.
Families.
Social conditions
Gezinshuishoudingen.
Famille > Droit > 19e siècle. > États-Unis (sud)
Southern States.
United States.
États-Unis (sud) > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41056
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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