History of Women in the United States : : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities.

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
MitwirkendeR:
BASCH, NORMA,
BOATWRIGHT, ELEANOR M.,
CENSER, JANE TURNER,
CHUSED, RICHARD H.,
GOODHEART, LAWRENCE B.,
GRISWOLD, ROBERT L.,
GROSSBERG, MICHAEL,
HANKS, NEIL,
JOHNSON, ELIZABETH,
LEBSOCK, SUZANNE D.,
MAY, ELAINE TYLER,
MONCRIEF, SANDRA,
O’NEILL, WILLIAM L.,
SALMON, MARYLYNN,
SHEINGORN, PAMELA,
WEISBROD, CAROL,
HerausgeberIn:
Cott, Nancy F.,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Copyright Information
  • Index

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