Household Constitution and Family Relationships

ISBN-13: 9783598414565 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 441 str.

Nancy F. Cott

Opis

Examines family history in the context of the general history of women in the USA. It considers women's social history and looks at the marital, parent-child relationships and the non-conforming instance of the single woman, in different regions and among many ethnic and racial groups in the USA.

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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