History of Women in the United States : : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. / Volume 2, : Household Constitution and Family Relationships / / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: CODY, CHERYLL ANN,; DEMOS, JOHN,; DYE, NANCY SCHROM,; FOSTER, LAWRENCE,; FOX-GENOVESE, ELIZABETH,; FURSTENBERG, FRANK F.,; GLICK, PAUL C.,; GORDON, LINDA,; HERMAN, SONDRA R.,; HERSHBERG, THEODORE,; ICHIOKA, YUJI,; IVERSEN, JOAN,; MEYEROWITZ, JOANNE,; MODELL, JOHN,; PLECK, ELIZABETH,; SCHWENINGER, LOREN,; SMITH, DANIEL BLAKE,; SMITH, DANIEL SCOTT,; STOWE, STEVEN M.,; SUNOO, SONIA S.,; WELLS, ROBERT V.,; WHITE, DEBORAH G.,
• 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 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (430 p.)

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Household Constitution and Family Relationships -- The American Family in Past Time -- Parental Power and Marriage Patterns: An Analysis of Historical Trends in Hingham, Massachusetts -- Family History and Demographic Transition -- Naming, Kinship, and Estate Dispersal: Notes on Slave Family Life on a South Carolina Plantation, 1786 to 1833 -- “The Thing Not Its Vision”: A Woman’s Courtship and Her Sphere in the Southern Planter Class -- A Slave Family in the Ante Bellum South -- Antebellum Southern Households: A New Perspective on a Familiar Question -- Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation South -- Mother Love and Infant Death, 1750–1920 -- Wife Beating in Nineteenth-Century America -- Family Limitation, Sexual Control, and Domestic Feminism in Victorian America -- The Origins of the Female-Headed Black Family: The Impact of the Urban Experience -- Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygyny -- Polygamy and the Frontier: Mormon Women in Early Utah -- Korean Women Pioneers of The Pacific Northwest -- Loving Courtship or the Marriage Market? The Ideal and Its Critics 1871–1911 -- Women and Migration: Autonomous Female Migrants to Chicago, 1880–1930 -- Amerika Nodeshiko: Japanese Immigrant Women in the United States, 1900-1924 -- Single Mothers and Child Neglect, 1880–1920 -- Demographic Change and the Life Cycles of American Families -- Updating the Life Cycle of the Family -- Copyright Information -- Index