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. |
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... century and a half of marriage through stories of struggle and conflict mined from case records , Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage . He describes how the law shaped and CONTINUED ON BACK FLAP Man and Wife in ...
... Century America , " Georgetown Law Journal , 80 , no . 1 ( October 1991 ) : 95-129 . A portion of Chapter 7 was previously published as " John Barry's Custodial Rights : Of Power , Justice , and Coverture , " in Jus- tice and Power in ...
... century marriage fixated on separation . When I began I imagined that I was studying a world in which marital struggles took their meaning and significance from ines- capable and lifelong coupledom . I imagined , as many others have and ...
... centuries - old faith that marriage was a permanent hier- archical relationship that made men into husbands and women ... century marriages more deeply private , less strategic , more in- tensely religious or intimate , hidden from law ...
... century woman's rights advocates and law reform- ers who saw themselves challenging a feudal atavism , the reform of mar- riage and the rise of no - fault divorce have been staple parts of the imag- ined modernization of western ...
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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