Domestic Relations and Law

ISBN-13: 9783598414572 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 460 str.

Nancy F. Cott

Opis

Considers the laws concerning marriage, divorce, property and child custody in the context of women's history in the United States. This text includes articles which treat women's legal status and change over time in women's interaction with the legal structures of marriage, divorce and property.

Spis treści

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