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Unfaithful : love, adultery, and marriage reform in nineteenth-century America /

"Between 1830 and 1880, an array of activists viewed the legal, social, and cultural institution of marriage as an obstacle to a more equitable society. Early feminists identified the question of marital rights as equally important to political rights. Other reformers deemed the marriage questi...

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Main Author: Faulkner, Carol, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Series:Haney Foundation series
Subjects and Genres:
Adultery > United States > History > 19th century.
Marriage > United States > History > 19th century.
Love > United States > History > 19th century.
Man-woman relationships > United States > History > 19th century.
Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction:
  • The adultery metaphor
  • Adultery as a sin and a crime
  • Adultery as freedom from sin
  • "Two kinds of adultery"
  • "Legalized adultery"
  • True vs. false marriage
  • "His adultery is proved so clear"
  • Adultery among the free lovers
  • Feminists and the marriage question
  • Adultery as social protest
  • Adultery as civil disobedience
  • Epilogue.

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