Family Limitation, Sexual Control, and Domestic Feminism in Victorian America

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Household Constitution and Family Relationships
6. The American Family in Past Time 3
7. Parental Power and Marriage Patterns: An Analysis of Historical Trends in Hingham, Massachusetts 28
8. Family History and Demographic Transition 38
9. Naming, Kinship, and Estate Dispersal: Notes on Slave Family Life on a South Carolina Plantation, 1786 to 1833 57
10. “The Thing Not Its Vision”: A Woman’s Courtship and Her Sphere in the Southern Planter Class 77
11. A Slave Family in the Ante Bellum South 95
12. Antebellum Southern Households: A New Perspective on a Familiar Question 111
13. Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation South 150
14. Mother Love and Infant Death, 1750–1920 164
15. Wife Beating in Nineteenth-Century America 189
16. Family Limitation, Sexual Control, and Domestic Feminism in Victorian America 204
17. The Origins of the Female-Headed Black Family: The Impact of the Urban Experience 222
18. Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygyny 245
19. Polygamy and the Frontier: Mormon Women in Early Utah 263
20. Korean Women Pioneers of The Pacific Northwest 285
21. Loving Courtship or the Marriage Market? The Ideal and Its Critics 1871–1911 298
22. Women and Migration: Autonomous Female Migrants to Chicago, 1880–1930 316
23. Amerika Nodeshiko: Japanese Immigrant Women in the United States, 1900-1924 338
24. Single Mothers and Child Neglect, 1880–1920 357
25. Demographic Change and the Life Cycles of American Families 377
26. Updating the Life Cycle of the Family 387
27. Copyright Information 397
28. Index 401