Man and Wife in America

"In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created unprecedented opportunities to escape that relationship. How was this possible? And how did wives and husbands experience marriage and separation within that legal regime? These are the complexities that Hendrik Hartog plumbs in a study of the powers of law and its limits."--BOOK JACKET.

שנה

2000

שפה

English

הוצאה

Harvard University Press

מהדורות

2

עמודים

416

ISBN

9780674002623

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata