Man and Wife in America: A HistoryHarvard University Press, 30.05.2002 - 416 Seiten In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means to escape that relationship. How was this possible? And how did wives and husbands experience marriage within that legal regime? These are the complexities that Hendrik Hartog plumbs in a study of the powers of law and its limits. |
Inhalt
The Scene of a Marriage | 6 |
Abigail Baileys Divorce | 40 |
Early Exits | 63 |
Being a Wife | 93 |
Acting Like a Husband | 136 |
Coercion and Harriet Douglas Cruger | 167 |
John Barry and American Fatherhood | 193 |
The Right to Kill | 218 |
The Geography of Remarriage | 242 |
Coverture in a New Age | 287 |
Epilogue | 309 |
A Note on Method | 315 |
Notes | 317 |
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