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Author Syrett, Nicholas L., author.

Title American child bride : a history of minors and marriage in the United States / Nicholas L. Syrett.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource
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 volume 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.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 8, 2016).
Subject Age of consent -- United States -- History.
Child marriage -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Child marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Marriage customs and rites -- United States -- History.
Marriage law -- United States -- History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Other Form: Print version: 9781469629537 1469629534 (DLC) 2015042775 (OCoLC)927619800
ISBN 9781469629551 (electronic bk.)
1469629550 (electronic bk.)
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