State of the marital union : rhetoric, identity, and nineteenth-century marriage controversies
Title:
State of the marital union : rhetoric, identity, and nineteenth-century marriage controversies
Author:
Harris, Leslie J., 1978-
ISBN:
9781481300537
9781306945233
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Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Contents:
Introduction: marriage and the nation -- Abuse, murder, and discipline in marriage -- Constituting the divorced citizen and saving the nation -- Polygamy and the relics of barbarism -- Free love, licentiousness, and civic identity -- Miscegenation and the future of civilization -- Conclusion: state of the (marital) union.
Abstract:
From Private Wife to Public Woman.
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