- Man and Wife in America
- Hendrik Hartog
- Exploring a century and a half of American marriage, Henrik Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage in the nineteenth-century. He describes the myriad ways the law shaped and defined marital relations, and how individuals manipulated the rules of the American states to fit their needs. Hartog shows how our own conflicts and confusions about marital roles and identities are rooted in the history of marriage and the legal struggles that defined and transformed it.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Private Lives
- Lawrence M. Friedman
- Drawing on many revealing and sometimes colorful court cases of the past two centuries, Private Lives offers a lively short history of the complexities of family law and family life--including the tensions between the laws on the books and contemporary arrangements for marriage, divorce, adoption, and child rearing.
- Hardcover 2005