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Reconstructing the Household - Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Reconstructing the Household - Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Studies in Legal History
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In Reconstructing the Household , Peter Bardaglio examines the
connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the
nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape,
incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners
struggled with the conflicts and stresses that surfaced within
their own households and in the larger society during the Civil War
era. Based on literary as well as legal sources, Bardaglio's
analysis reveals how legal contests involving African Americans,
women, children, and the poor led to a rethinking of families,
sexuality, and the social order. Before the Civil War, a
distinctive variation of republicanism, based primarily on
hierarchy and dependence, characterized southern domestic
relations. This organic ideal of the household and its power
structure differed significantly from domestic law in the North,
which tended to emphasize individual rights and contractual
obligations. The defeat of the Confederacy, emancipation, and
economic change transformed family law and the governance of
sexuality in the South and allowed an unprecedented intrusion of
the state into private life. But Bardaglio argues that despite
these profound social changes, a preoccupation with traditional
notions of gender and race continued to shape southern legal
attitudes. |Based on literary and legal sources, this study reveals
how legal contests involving women, children, African-Americans,
and the poor of the 19th-century South led to a rethinking of
families, sexuality, and the social order.
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