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State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Baylor Univ Pr
Publication date July 15, 2014
Pages 213
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781481300513
ISBN-10 1481300512
Dimensions 0.75 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight 1.14 lbs.
Original list price $49.95
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: State of the Marital Union documents the transformations of public identity occurring in American society through a close examination of the rhetoric used in nineteenth-century marriage controversies. Leslie J. Harris argues that American citizenship is, in part, rhetorically constituted through marriage.

The public debates over seemingly distinct marriage controversies, such as domestic violence, divorce, polygamy, free love, and interracial marriage, functioned as ways of both challenging and solidifying norms of gender, race, class, and ethnicity. Public sentiment operated as a lens for understanding some of the most heated public issues of the time, including slavery, westward expansion, women's rights, and immigration. Harris demonstrates how the private wife became the public woman by contesting legal standing in both the court of law and the court of public opinion.

State of the Marital Union makes the case that marriage is a critical site for constituting and performing ways of being in the American public, which has significant implications for understanding both female roles and the body politic.

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9781481300513 | details & prices | 213 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.14 lbs | List price $49.95
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