Man and Wife in America

Name: Man and Wife in America
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ISBN: 9780674002623

ISBN-10: 0674002628

ISBN-13: 9780674002623

Edition: 2000

Authors: Hendrik Hartog

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19th-century American law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence, yet with the means to escape that relationship. This is a study of the powers of the law and its limits.

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/19/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Hendrik Hartog is Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University.



Introduction


The Scene of a Marriage


Abigail Bailey's Divorce


Early Exits


Being a Wife


Acting Like a Husband


Coercion and Harriet Douglas Cruger


John Barry and American Fatherhood


The Right to Kill


The Geography of Remarriage


Coverture in a New Age


Epilogue


A Note on Method


Notes


Index