Reconstructing the Household : Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
by Bardaglio, Peter W.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-11-01
Publisher(s): Univ of North Carolina Pr
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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.
Author Biography
Peter W. Bardaglio is associate professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.
Table of Contents
| Preface, xi | |
| Acknowledgments, xix | |
| The Days beyond the Flood | |
| Patriarchy and the Law in the Old South | p. 3 |
| Sex Crimes, Sexuality, and the Courts | p. 37 |
| Keeping the Child | p. 79 |
| After the Flood | |
| The Transformation of Southern Legal Culture, 1860-1880 | p. 115 |
| The Evolution of Contractual Families | p. 137 |
| The Forces of Persistence: Race, Blood, and Gender | p. 176 |
| Domestic Governance in the New South | p. 214 |
| Appendix | |
| Tables | p. 229 |
| Notes | p. 235 |
| Bibliography | p. 305 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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