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American child bride a history of minors and marriage in the United States
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American child bride [electronic resource] : a history of minors and marriage in the United States / Nicholas L. Syrett.
ISBN
1469629550
9781469629551
9781469629537 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Global Cultural Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 13, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Any maid or woman child: a new nation and its marriage laws
The child was to be his wife: patterns of youthful marriage in antebellum America
Wholly unfit for the marriage condition: Parton v. Hervey and struggles over age of consent laws
The great life-long mistake: women's rights advocates and the feminist critique of early marriage
My little girl wife: the transformation of childhood and marriage in the late nineteenth century
I did and I don't regret it: child marriage and the contestation of childhood, 1880-1925
Marriage reform is still an unplowed field: reformers target child marriage during the 1920s
Marriage comes early in the mountains: the persistence of child marriage in the rural South
Are they marrying too young?: the teenage marriage "crisis" of the postwar years
There was no stopping her: teen marriage continues in rural America.
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