American child bride : a history of minors and marriage in the United States / Nicholas L. Syrett.

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Syrett, Nicholas L [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469629551

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HQ535 .A447 2016

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Contents:

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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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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