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American child bride : a history of minors and marriage in the United States
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- Creator
- Nicholas L. Syrett
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1469629542, 9781469629537, 9781469629544, 9781469629551, 1469629534, 1469629550, 9798890848970
- OCLC
- ocn958079358, ocn927619800
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Any maid or woman child: a new nation and its marriage laws -- The child was to be his wife: patterns of youthful marriage in antebellum America -- Wholly unfit for the marriage condition: Parton v. Hervey and struggles over age of consent laws -- The great life-long mistake: women's rights advocates and the feminist critique of early marriage -- My little girl wife: the transformation of childhood and marriage in the late nineteenth century -- I did and I don't regret it: child marriage and the contestation of childhood, 1880-1925 -- Marriage reform is still an unplowed field: reformers target child marriage during the 1920s -- Marriage comes early in the mountains: the persistence of child marriage in the rural South -- Are they marrying too young?: the teenage marriage "crisis" of the postwar years -- There was no stopping her: teen marriage continues in rural America