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Intimate partner violence in New Orleans : gender, race, and reform, 1840-1900
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- Summary
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The history of the challenges faced by women of all races in the Crescent City.
Details
- Creator
- Ashley Baggett
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 213 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781496815255, 9781496815248, 149681522X, 1496815246, 9781496815231, 9781496815217, 1496815254, 1496815211, 9781496815224, 1496815238
- OCLC
- ocn988581010
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover; Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One "Husbands Are Men, Not Angels" Gender and Intimate Partner Violence in Antebellum New Orleans; Chapter Two "We Are All Men" Transforming Gender Expectations in New Orleans during the Civil War and Reconstruction; Chapter Three "Strike Me If You Dare" Abused Women of New Orleans and the Right to Be Free from Violence; Chapter Four "You Can't Abuse Her in This House" Family, Community, and Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans
- Chapter Five "The Rule of Love Has Superseded the Rule of Force" The Criminalization of Intimate Partner Violence in New OrleansChapter Six "It Will Be Done to Maintain White Supremacy" The Decline of Intervention in the South; Epilogue Gender and Intimate Partner Violence in the Early 1900s; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Subjects
- Spousal abuse -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
- Women -- Abuse of -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
- Family violence -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
- New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.