Journal of women's history, 2021-04, Vol.33 (1), p.150-157
2021
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Challenges and Continuities in Marriage Law
- Ist Teil von
- Journal of women's history, 2021-04, Vol.33 (1), p.150-157
- Ort / Verlag
- Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2021
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Project MUSE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Historians of the United States long ago dispensed with the notion that marriage is merely a private expression of love and devotion between two people. Works by Michael Grossberg, Nancy F. Cott, Hendrik Hartog, and Peggy Pascoe, among many others, have demonstrated unequivocally that marriage has always been an institution of public governance that confers legal entitlements and enforces social norms. Marriage has operated as a regulatory regime that authorizes some kinds of pairings while it invalidates others, defining and reproducing hierarchies of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. Three very different and engaging new books about marriage and the law in the United States affirm this view, even as they extend and complicate our understanding of the institution.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1042-7961, 1527-2036eISSN: 1527-2036DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2021.0008Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_journals_2507713097
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- 20th century, Age, Child marriage, Clergy, Consent, Couples, Daughters, Divorce, Family law, Girls, Governance, Historians, Kuby, Lefkovitz, Syrett, William --$eauthor., Alison -- author., Nicholas L. -- author, Law, Legislators, Love, Marriage, Marriage $zUnited States $xHistory $y20th century, Parents & parenting, Race, Rape, Regulation, Sanctions, Sexual orientation, Sexuality, Social norms, Unmarried couples $xLegal status, laws, etc. $zUnited States, Wives, Womens health, World War II