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Reconstructing the household : families, sex, and the law in the nineteenth-century South / Peter W. Bardaglio.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in legal historyPublisher: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1995]Copyright date: �1995Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 355 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0807860212
  • 9780807860212
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reconstructing the household.DDC classification:
  • 306.85/0975/09034 20
LOC classification:
  • KF505 .B37 1995eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
Online resources:
Contents:
The days beyond the flood -- Patriarchy and the law in the old South -- Sex crimes, sexuality, and the courts -- Keeping the child -- After the flood -- The transformation of southern legal culture, 1860-1880 -- The evolution of contractual families -- The forces of persistence: race, blood, and gender -- Domestic governance in the new South.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: Based on literary and legal sources, this study reveals how legal contests involving women, children, African-Americans, and the poor of the 19th-century South led to a rethinking of families, sexuality, and the social order.
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-337) and index.

Based on literary and legal sources, this study reveals how legal contests involving women, children, African-Americans, and the poor of the 19th-century South led to a rethinking of families, sexuality, and the social order.

The days beyond the flood -- Patriarchy and the law in the old South -- Sex crimes, sexuality, and the courts -- Keeping the child -- After the flood -- The transformation of southern legal culture, 1860-1880 -- The evolution of contractual families -- The forces of persistence: race, blood, and gender -- Domestic governance in the new South.

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