Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Legal History) - Brossura

Grossberg, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0807842257 ISBN 13: 9780807842256

Casa editrice: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988

Riassunto

Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished male authority, increased women's and children's rights, and fixed more clearly the state's responsibilities in family affairs. Grossberg further illustrates why many basic principles of this distinctive and powerful new body of law--antiabortion and maternal biases in child custody--remained in effect well into the twentieth century.

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L'autore:

Michael Grossberg is associate professor of history and adjunct associate professor of law at Case Western Reserve University.

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Book by Grossberg Michael

Su questa edizione

• Editore: The University of North Carolina Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0807842257
• ISBN 13: 9780807842256
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432