History of Women in the United States : : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. / Volume 3, : Domestic Relations and Law / / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]
©1992
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:History of Women in the United States ; Volume 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (449 p.)
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Other title:i-iv --
Contents --
Series Preface --
Introduction --
Domestic Relations and Law --
Women and Property in South Carolina: The Evidence from Marriage Settlements, 1730 to 1830 --
“Smiling Through Her Tears”: Ante-Bellum Southern Women and Divorce --
The Political and Civil Status of Women in Georgia, 1783–1860 --
“An Act for the Relief of Females...”: Divorce and the Changing Legal Status of Women in Tennessee, 1796–1860, Part I --
“An Act far the Relief of Females...”: Divorce and the Changing Legal Status of Women in Tennessee Part II --
The Mississippi Married Women's Property Act of 1839 --
Invisible Women: The Legal Fiction of Marital Unity in Nineteenth-Century America --
Married Women’s Property Law: 1800–1850 --
Radical Reconstruction and the Property Rights of Southern Women --
Apart but Not Adrift: Wives, Divorce, and Independence in California, 1850–1890 --
Law, Sex, Cruelty, and Divorce in Victorian America, 1840–1900 --
Who Gets the Child? Custody, Guardianship, and the Rise of a Judicial Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century America --
Late Nineteenth Century Married Women’s Property Law: Reception of the Early Married Women’s Property Acts by Courts and Legislatures --
Reynolds v. United States: Nineteenth-Century Forms of Marriage and the Status of Women --
Divorce in the Progressive Era --
The Pressure to Provide: Class, Consumerism, and Divorce in Urban America, 1880–1920 --
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Index
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110968941
9783110635669
DOI:10.1515/9783110968941
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Nancy F. Cott.