Families
Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture
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Red Families v. Blue Families identifies a new family model geared for the post-industrial economy. Rooted in the urban middle class, the coasts and the “blue states” in the last three presidential elections, the Blue Family Paradigm emphasizes the importance of women’s as well as men’s workforce participation, egalitarian gender roles, and the delay of family formation until both parents are emotionally and financially ready. By contrast, the Red Family Paradigm–a… More >>
Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture
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Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
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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… More >>
Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
Tags: adoption laws, child custody, Families, gender sexuality, Household, incest child, legal sources, miscegenation, nineteenth century, NineteenthCentury, race gender, rape incest, Reconstructing, South, southernersRelated posts