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Conjugal Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United States

Conjugal Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United States

Name: Conjugal Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United States
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107160262
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Author: William Kuby
ISBN: 9781107160262

By William Kuby

Cambridge University Press May 2018

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ISBN-13: 9781107160262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: May 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Conjugal Misconduct reveals the hidden history of controversial and legally contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. William Kuby examines the experiences of couples in unconventional unions and the legal and cultural backlash generated by a wide array of 'alternative' marriages. These include marriages established through personal advertisements and matchmaking bureaus, marriages that defied state eugenic regulations, hasty marriages between divorced persons, provisional and temporary unions referred to as 'trial marriages', racial intermarriages, and a host of other unions that challenged sexual and marital norms.

In illuminating the tensions between those who set marriage policies and those who defied them, Kuby offers a fresh account of marriage's contested history, arguing that although marital nonconformists composed only a small minority of the population, their atypical arrangements nonetheless shifted popular understandings of marriage and consistently refashioned the legal parameters of the institution.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Matrimonial advertisements, matchmaking bureaus, and the threat of commercialized courtship

2. Hasty remarriage, out-of-state elopement, and the battle against 'progressive polygamy'

3. Eugenic marriage laws and the continuing crisis of out-of-state elopement

4. Trial marriage and the laws of the home

5. Black-white intermarriage, the backlash against miscegenation, and the push for racial amalgamation

6. Averting the crisis: the birth of the marriage education movement

Epilogue

Index.

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