American child bride : a history of minors and marriage in the United States / Nicholas L. Syrett.
| Author/creator | Syrett, Nicholas L. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 v. 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2015042775 |
| ISBN | 9781469629537 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469629534 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |