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Article: Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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With the exception of Marylynn Salmon's pathbreaking Women and the Law of Property, legal historians have tended to avoid the issue of regionalism in the development of domestic relations law. Now, with Peter W. Bardaglio's Reconstructing the Household, historians have a carefully researched and thoughtful study of how nineteenth-century southern and northern family laws resembled and differed from each other. This volume joins Michael Grossberg's Governing the Hearth as the most important contributions to our understanding of family law during the critical formative period stretching from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
Southern family history ...