Family and society in American history / edited by Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth I. Nybakken.

Other author Hawes, Joseph M.
Other author Nybakken, Elizabeth I.
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2001.
Descriptionx, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Families--United States. --History.
Domestic relations--United States. --History.

Contents Regulating the American family / Steven Mintz -- Women and property in South Carolina: the evidence from marriage settlements, 1730-1830 / Marylynn Salmon -- Women and the family economy in the early republic: the case of Elizabeth Meredith / Susan Branson -- "Sally has been sick": pregnancy and family limitation among Virginia gentry women, 1780-1830 / Jan Lewis and Kenneth A. Lockridge -- Children in American family portraiture, 1670-1810 / Karin Calvert -- Law, sex, cruelty, and divorce in Victorian America, 1840-1900 / Robert L. Griswold -- From longhouse to log house: household structure among Senecas in 1900 / Nancy Shoemaker -- Gender systems in conflict: marriages of mission-educated Chinese American women, 1874-1939 / Peggy Pascoe -- They came to Kansas searching for a better life / Valerie M. Mendoza -- The fault of memory: "southern Italy" in the imagination of immigrants and the lives of their children in Italian Harlem, 1920-45 / Robert A. Orsi -- "The anchor of my life": middle-class American mothers and college-educated daughters, 1880-1920 / Linda W. Rosenzweig -- Do-it-yourself: constructing, repairing, and maintaining domestic masculinity / Steven M. Gelber -- Family, race, and poverty in the 1980s / Maxine Baca Zinn.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00011382
ISBN0252025679 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252068734 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ535 .F318 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold