Reconstructing the Household : Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
, by Bardaglio, Peter W.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780807822227 | 0807822221
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/1/1995
Based on literary and legal sources, this study reveals how legal contests involving women, children, African-Americans, and the poor of the 19th-century South led to a rethinking of families, sexuality, and the social order.