Domestic Relations and Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

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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