Family and society in American history
By: edited by Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth I. Nybakken.
Contributors: Hawes, Joseph M.; Nybakken, Elizabeth I.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Family -- United States -- History; Domestic relations -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Regulating the American family / Steven Mintz; title: Women and property in South Carolina: the evidence from marriage settlements, 1730-1830 / Marylynn Salmon; title: Women and the family economy in the early republic: the case of Elizabeth Meredith / Susan Branson; title: "Sally has been sick": pregnancy and family limitation among Virginia gentry women, 1780-1830 / Jan Lewis and Kenneth A. Lockridge; title: Children in American family portraiture, 1670-1810 / Karin Calvert; title: Law, sex, cruelty, and divorce in Victorian America, 1840-1900 / Robert L. Griswold; title: From longhouse to log house: household structure among Senecas in 1900 / Nancy Shoemaker; title: Gender systems in conflict: marriages of mission-educated Chinese American women, 1874-1939 / Peggy Pascoe; title: They came to Kansas searching for a better life / Valerie M. Mendoza; title: The fault of memory: "southern Italy" in the imagination of immigrants and the lives of their children in Italian Harlem, 1920-45 / Robert A. Orsi; title: "The anchor of my life": middle-class American mothers and college-educated daughters, 1880-1920 / Linda W. Rosenzweig; title: Do-it-yourself: constructing, repairing, and maintaining domestic masculinity / Steven M. Gelber; title: Family, race, and poverty in the 1980s / Maxine Baca Zinn.