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Inside the Castle - Law and the Family in 20th Century America (Paperback)
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Inside the Castle - Law and the Family in 20th Century America (Paperback)
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Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of
twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman
and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society
have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and
children have gained rights and powers, and novel forms of family
life have emerged. The family has more or less dissolved into a
collection of independent individuals with their own wants,
desires, and goals. Modern family law, as always, reflects the
brute social and cultural facts of family life. The story of family
law in the twentieth century is complex. This was the century that
said goodbye to common-law marriage and breach-of-promise lawsuits.
This was the century, too, of the sexual revolution and women's
liberation, of gay rights and cohabitation. Marriage lost its
powerful monopoly over legitimate sexual behavior. Couples who
lived together without marriage now had certain rights. Gay
marriage became legal in a handful of jurisdictions. By the end of
the century, no state still prohibited same-sex behavior. Children
in many states could legally have two mothers or two fathers.
No-fault divorce became cheap and easy. And illegitimacy lost most
of its social and legal stigma. These changes were not smooth or
linear--all met with resistance and provoked a certain amount of
backlash. Families took many forms, some of them new and different,
and though buffeted by the winds of change, the family persisted as
a central institution in society. Inside the Castle tells the story
of that institution, exploring the ways in which law tried to
penetrate and control this most mysterious realm of personal life.
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