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Buying a Bride - An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches (Hardcover)
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Buying a Bride - An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches (Hardcover)
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There have always been mail-order brides in America-but we haven't
always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride,
Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called "Tobacco Wives" of the
Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today's modern
same-sex mail-order grooms to explore the advantages and
disadvantages of mail-order marriage. It's a history of deception,
physical abuse, and failed unions. It's also the story of how
mail-order marriage can offer women surprising and empowering
opportunities. Drawing on a forgotten trove of colorful mail-order
marriage court cases, Zug explores the many troubling legal issues
that arise in mail-order marriage: domestic abuse and murder,
breach of contract, fraud (especially relating to immigration), and
human trafficking and prostitution. She tells the story of how
mail-order marriage lost the benign reputation it enjoyed in the
Civil War era to become more and more reviled over time, and she
argues compellingly that it does not entirely deserve its current
reputation. While it is a common misperception that women turn to
mail-order marriage as a desperate last resort, most mail-order
brides are enticed rather than coerced. Since the first mail-order
brides arrived on American shores in 1619, mail-order marriage has
enabled women to improve both their marital prospects and their
legal, political, and social freedoms. Buying A Bride uncovers this
history and shows us how mail-order marriage empowers women and
should be protected and even encouraged.
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