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Author Grossberg, Michael, 1950-

Title Governing the hearth : law and the family in nineteenth-century America / Michael Grossberg.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1985]
©1985

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  346.73 G878G    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 417 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in legal history
Studies in legal history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Domestic relations : a law for Republican families -- Broken promises : judges and the law of courtship -- Nutial license : the regulation of weddings -- Matrimonial limitations: who's fit to wed? -- Contraception and abortion : who controls the womb? -- Bastard rights : recognizing a new family member -- Custody rights : who gets the child? -- A judicial patriarchy : family law at the turn of the century.
Subject Domestic relations -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0807816469 0807816477
9780807816462
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