Domestic Relations and Law

Nancy F. Cott

• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9783598414572
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110968941
• Topic: Negocios y empresa
• Subtopic: Negocios en general

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Table of contents

• Contents
• Series Preface
• Introduction
• Domestic Relations and Law
• Women and Property in South Carolina: The Evidence from Marriage Settlements, 1730 to 1830
• “Smiling Through Her Tears”: Ante-Bellum Southern Women and Divorce
• The Political and Civil Status of Women in Georgia, 1783–1860
• “An Act for the Relief of Females...”: Divorce and the Changing Legal Status of Women in Tennessee, 1796–1860, Part I
• “An Act far the Relief of Females...”: Divorce and the Changing Legal Status of Women in Tennessee Part II
• The Mississippi Married Women's Property Act of 1839
• Invisible Women: The Legal Fiction of Marital Unity in Nineteenth-Century America
• Married Women’s Property Law: 1800–1850
• Radical Reconstruction and the Property Rights of Southern Women
• Apart but Not Adrift: Wives, Divorce, and Independence in California, 1850–1890
• Law, Sex, Cruelty, and Divorce in Victorian America, 1840–1900
• Who Gets the Child? Custody, Guardianship, and the Rise of a Judicial Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century America
• Late Nineteenth Century Married Women’s Property Law: Reception of the Early Married Women’s Property Acts by Courts and Legislatures
• Reynolds v. United States: Nineteenth-Century Forms of Marriage and the Status of Women
• Divorce in the Progressive Era
• The Pressure to Provide: Class, Consumerism, and Divorce in Urban America, 1880–1920
• Copyright Information
• Index