Unfaithful - Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America

Unfaithful places a distinctive view of adultery at the center of efforts to reform marriage in the 19th-century U.S., connecting communitarians, free lovers, feminists, spiritualists, bohemians, and abolitionists who all challenged the restrictive legal institution of marriage.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Carol Faulkner is Professor of History at Syracuse University. She is author of Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America and Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Zusammenfassung

Unfaithful places a distinctive view of adultery at the center of efforts to reform marriage in the nineteenth-century United States, connecting communitarians, free lovers, feminists, spiritualists, bohemians, and abolitionists who all challenged the restrictive legal institution of marriage.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Carol Faulkner
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780812251555
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5155-5
• Seiten: 224
• Serien: Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Ratgeber > Lebenshilfe, Alltag > Partnerschaft, Sexualität; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Ratgeber: Partnerschaft und Ehe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long Term Relationships, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / 19th Century