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Reconstructing the household

families, sex, and the law in the nineteenth-century South

by Peter Winthrop Bardaglio

1995 355 pages eng

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 s…

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