American child bride : a history of minors and marriage in the United States /

Syrett, Nicholas L.,

American child bride : a history of minors and marriage in the United States / Nicholas L. Syrett. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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 volume 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.



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Age of consent--History.--United States
Child marriage--Social aspects--History.--United States
Child marriage--Law and legislation--History.--United States
Marriage customs and rites--History.--United States
Marriage law--History.--United States


Electronic Books.

HQ535 / .A447 2016