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1 online resource (viii, 443 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-422) and index. |
Contents |
pt. 1. Tying the knot : marriage and promises to marry -- Marriage and the state -- Marriage, law, and society : a tangled web -- Common-law marriage -- The end of heart balm -- pt. 2. Anything goes : marriage in a permissive age -- The rise of sexual freedom -- Cohabitation -- Same-sex relationships -- pt. 3. When the music stops : dissolving a marriage and the aftermath -- Untying the knot : divorce and annulment -- Dollars and sense : the economic consequences of divorce -- Collateral damage : the children of divorce -- pt. 4. The old and the new generation -- The extended family : elder law and the law of inheritance -- Parents and children : rights and duties -- Who do we belong to? Parentage and the law -- Chosen people : adoption and the law. |
Summary |
Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel forms of family life have emerged. The family has more or less dissolved into a collection of independent individuals with their own wants, desires, and goals. Modern family law, as always, reflects the brute social and cultural facts of family life. The story of family law in the twentieth century i. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Domestic relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Domestic relations. |
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United States. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Marriage law -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Marriage law. |
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Parent and child (Law) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Parent and child (Law) |
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Social conditions. |
Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Marriage law. |
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Children. |
Added Author |
Friedman, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Meir), 1930-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Grossman, Joanna L. Inside the castle. Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691149820 (DLC) 2011002661 (OCoLC)698361321 |
ISBN |
9781400839773 (electronic book) |
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1400839777 (electronic book) |
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9780691149820 |
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0691149828 |
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