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Author Syrett, Nicholas L., author.

Title American child bride : a history of minors and marriage in the United States / Nicholas L. Syrett.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
©2016
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Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Any maid or woman child: a new nation and its marriage laws -- The child was to be his wife: patterns of youthful marriage in antebellum America -- Wholly unfit for the marriage condition: Parton v. Hervey and struggles over age of consent laws -- The great life-long mistake: women's rights advocates and the feminist critique of early marriage -- My little girl wife: the transformation of childhood and marriage in the late nineteenth century -- I did and I don't regret it: child marriage and the contestation of childhood, 1880-1925 -- Marriage reform is still an unplowed field: reformers target child marriage during the 1920s -- Marriage comes early in the mountains: the persistence of child marriage in the rural South -- Are they marrying too young?: the teenage marriage "crisis" of the postwar years -- There was no stopping her: teen marriage continues in rural America.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Age of consent -- United States -- History.
Age of consent.
United States.
History.
Child marriage -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Child marriage.
Social aspects.
Child marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Child marriage -- Law and legislation.
Marriage customs and rites -- United States -- History.
Marriage customs and rites.
Marriage law -- United States -- History.
Marriage law.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Age of consent.
Marriage law.
Other Form: Print version: 9781469629537 1469629534 (DLC) 2015042775 (OCoLC)927619800
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