Inside the Castle (eBook)

Law and the Family in 20th Century America

Joanna L. Grossman, Lawrence M. Friedman (Autoren)

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2011
456 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3977-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A comprehensive social history of families and family law in twentieth-century AmericaInside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel forms of family life have emerged. The family has more or less dissolved into a collection of independent individuals with their own wants, desires, and goals. Modern family law, as always, reflects the brute social and cultural facts of family life.The story of family law in the twentieth century is complex. This was the century that said goodbye to common-law marriage and breach-of-promise lawsuits. This was the century, too, of the sexual revolution and women's liberation, of gay rights and cohabitation. Marriage lost its powerful monopoly over legitimate sexual behavior. Couples who lived together without marriage now had certain rights. Gay marriage became legal in a handful of jurisdictions. By the end of the century, no state still prohibited same-sex behavior. Children in many states could legally have two mothers or two fathers. No-fault divorce became cheap and easy. And illegitimacy lost most of its social and legal stigma. These changes were not smooth or linear-all met with resistance and provoked a certain amount of backlash. Families took many forms, some of them new and different, and though buffeted by the winds of change, the family persisted as a central institution in society. Inside the Castle tells the story of that institution, exploring the ways in which law tried to penetrate and control this most mysterious realm of personal life.

Autor

Joanna L. Grossman is professor of law at Hofstra University and the coeditor of Gender Equality. Lawrence M. Friedman is the Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford University. His books include A History of American Law.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2011
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Abortion Law • adopted children • Adoption • Adoption Law • Adult • adultery • Alienation • Alienation of affections • alimony • American dream • American family • American marriage • americans • Annulment • appellate court • A Sacred Duty • attempt • Bigamy • biological parenthood • birth certificate • Breach of promise • causes of action • Charles Dickens • Child Abuse • child care • child custody • children • Children's rights • child sexual abuse • Child Support • Civil Protection • Cohabitation • commerce clause • Common Law • common-law marriage • Community property • Conciliation • Congressional Debate • consent • Consideration • Contract • court • court order • Criminal charge • criminal conversation • Crooner • cross-racial adoption • Curriculum • custody • custody disputes • dead hand • decline • Decree • defendant • Desertion • Deviance (sociology) • Discretion • Divorce • Divorce law by country • Divorce mill • divorce negotiation • divorce on demand • Doctrine • domestic partnership • Domestic violence • Driver's license • Economic consequences • Economic Rights • Education • Elder Abuse • Elder Law • Eugenics • expressive individualism • Extended family • extramarital sex • ex-wife • family breakdown • Family Law • family life • Father • fault-based divorce • Feminism • formality • fornication • Fraud • freedom of contract • Furniture • gay families • gay marriage • Gay Rights • Gender Role • grandparent • Griswold v. Connecticut • Grounds for divorce • Homosexuality • Household • husband • identity formation • illegitimacy • Incest • income • Individualism • informal marriage • Inheritance • Institution • interracial marriage • interstate marriage • intimate relationship • Jurisdiction • Jurisprudence • Kimono • Lawrence v. Texas • Lawsuit • lawyer • legal changes • legal guardian • legal parentage • Legal Practice • Legal Revolution • Legal separation • legal separations • Legitimacy • Legitimacy (family law) • lesbian families • Loving v. Virginia • Many Marriages • marital freedom • marital rape • marriage • Marriage Law • marriage license • marriage regulation • marriage restrictions • married couples • middle class • Middle-class values • minor children • Minor (law) • miscegenation • misconduct • MONEY • Morality • mother • Neglect • no-fault divorce • noncustodial parent • Nonprofit Organization • Nuclear family • parent • parentage • Parental authority • parental consent • parenthood • parenting • Payment • percentage • Personality disorder • Pew Research Center • plaintiff • Polygamy • Precedent • prenuptial agreement • presumption • privacy • probate • promise of marriage • property division • Prosecutor • Prostitution • punishment • Racism • racism in the united states • Remarriage • reproductive technology • Restaurant • Right of Privacy • Right to Privacy • Roe v. Wade • Safe-haven law • Same-Sex Marriage • same-sex relationship • same-sex relationships • saving • scientific racism • Scientist • Seduction • Separations • sex life • sexual behavior • sexual freedom • sexual intercourse • sexual mores • Sexual Revolution • single parent • Sister Wives • Social Factors • Social Institutions • social meaning • social revolution • Social Security Act • social stigma • sodomy • Sodomy law • spousal support • spouse • State law (United States) • state marriage regulation • Statute • stepfamily • Subsidy • succession • support awards • Supreme Court • supreme court of the united states • Surrogacy • Tax • Technology • The First Man • Theft • theory • The Other Hand • Tort • traditional family • Traditional Marriage • traditional morality • traditional parenthood • trial court • troubled families • trust company • Trusts • Twentieth century • twenty-first century • two women • Vasectomy • Wills • Women's liberation
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3977-7 / 1400839777
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3977-3 / 9781400839773