Governing the hearth : law and the family in nineteenth-century America /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in legal history
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=103995 |
Table of Contents:
- Domestic relations : a law for Republican families
- Broken promises : judges and the law of courtship
- Nutial license : the regulation of weddings
- Matrimonial limitations: who's fit to wed?
- Contraception and abortion : who controls the womb?
- Bastard rights : recognizing a new family member
- Custody rights : who gets the child?
- A judicial patriarchy : family law at the turn of the century.