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Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South - Studies in Legal History Peter W. Bardaglio 2 Revised edition
Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South - Studies in Legal History
Peter W. Bardaglio
Examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in 19th-century Southern USA. The book focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that surfaced during the Civil War era.
382 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 2, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807847121 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 382 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 30 mm · 630 g |
| Language | English |