Man and Wife in America
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780674002623
Subjects: Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Marriage; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Domestic Relations Law; Sociology - Marriage & Family; History: American; USA; Family Law - Marriage; Legal History; United States - General; Law / Legal History; History; Modern - 19th Century; Husband and wife; Separation (Law); United States
Description: "In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created unprecedented opportunities to escape that relationship. How was this possible? And how did wives and husbands experience marriage and separation within that legal regime? These are the complexities that Hendrik Hartog plumbs in a study of the powers of law and its limits."--BOOK JACKET.