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Author Bardaglio, Peter Winthrop, author.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 355 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in legal history
Studies in legal history.
Note Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1987.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-337) and index.
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.
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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Domestic relations -- Southern States -- History.
Domestic relations.
Southern States.
History.
Families -- Southern States.
Families.
Southern States -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Chronological Term 1865-1877
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Bardaglio, Peter Winthrop. Reconstructing the household. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995 0807822221 (DLC) 95011798 (OCoLC)32272911
ISBN 0807860212 (electronic book)
9780807860212 (electronic book)
9780807822227 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807822221 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807847127
9780807847121