Conjugal Misconduct - Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United States

Examines the experiences of couples in controversial unions and the legal and cultural backlash against contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Matrimonial advertisements, matchmaking bureaus, and the threat of commercialized courtship; 2. Hasty remarriage, out-of-state elopement, and the battle against 'progressive polygamy'; 3. Eugenic marriage laws and the continuing crisis of out-of-state elopement; 4. Trial marriage and the laws of the home; 5. Black-white intermarriage, the backlash against miscegenation, and the push for racial amalgamation; 6. Averting the crisis: the birth of the marriage education movement; Epilogue; Index.

About the author

William Kuby is a UC Foundation Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, where he directs the Africana Studies Program and teaches in the Women's Studies Program.

Summary

Examines the experiences of couples in controversial unions and the legal and cultural backlash against contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. Will appeal to readers studying marriage law, gender, sexuality, class, and race in the US, and those seeking historical insight into the recent debates over the definition of marriage.

Product details

• Authors: William Kuby, William (University of Tennessee Kuby, KUBY WILLIAM
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781107160262
• ISBN: 978-1-107-16026-2
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Legal History, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, Family Law: Marriage & Divorce, Family law: marriage, separation and divorce