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Kniha Framing American Divorce Norma Basch

Framing American Divorce

From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians

Autor: Norma Basch
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: University of California Press
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 10-18 dnů
686 Kč
Divorce has become one of the most widely discussed issues in America. In this innovative exploratio...

Informace o knize

Autor
Norma Basch
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2001
Stránek
258
EAN
9780520231962
ISBN
0520231961
Enbook ID
04616844
Vydavatel
University of California Press
Hmotnost
408
Rozměry
152 x 229 x 15

Kompletní popis

Divorce has become one of the most widely discussed issues in America. In this innovative exploration of the phenomenon of divorce in American society, Norma Basch uses a variety of analytic perspectives to enrich our understanding of the meaning of divorce during the formative years of both the nation and its law, roughly 1770 to 1870. She provides a fascinating, thoughtful look at divorce as a legal action, as an individual experience, and as a cultural symbol in its era of institutionalization and traces the powerful legacy of the first American divorce experiences for us today. Using a unique methodology, Basch fragments her story into three discrete but chronologically overlapping perspectives. In Part I, 'Rules,' she analyzes the changing legal and legislative aspects of divorce and the public response to them. Part II, 'Mediations,' focuses on individual cases and presents a close-up analysis of the way ordinary women and men tested the law in the courts. And Part III, 'Representations,' charts the spiraling imagery of divorce through various fiction and non-fiction narratives that made their way into American popular culture during the nineteenth century. The composite picture that emerges in "Framing American Divorce" is a vividly untidy one that exposes the gulf between legal and moral abstractions and everyday practices. Divorce, Basch argues, was always a focal point of conflict between the autonomy of women and the authority of men. Tracing the legal, social, and cultural experience of divorce allows Basch to provide a searching exploration of the limits of nineteenth-century ideals of domesticity, romantic love, and marriage, and their legacy for us today. She brings her findings up-to-date with a provocative discussion of the current debate over fault or no-fault divorce.

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