Examines the experiences of couples in controversial unions and the legal and cultural backlash against contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America.
Examines the experiences of couples in controversial unions and the legal and cultural backlash against contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America.
William Kuby is a UC Foundation Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, where he directs the Africana Studies Program and teaches in the Women's Studies Program.
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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Matrimonial advertisements, matchmaking bureaus, and the threat of commercialized courtship 2. Hasty remarriage, out-of-state elopement, and the battle against 'progressive polygamy' 3. Eugenic marriage laws and the continuing crisis of out-of-state elopement 4. Trial marriage and the laws of the home 5. Black-white intermarriage, the backlash against miscegenation, and the push for racial amalgamation 6. Averting the crisis: the birth of the marriage education movement Epilogue Index.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Matrimonial advertisements, matchmaking bureaus, and the threat of commercialized courtship 2. Hasty remarriage, out-of-state elopement, and the battle against 'progressive polygamy' 3. Eugenic marriage laws and the continuing crisis of out-of-state elopement 4. Trial marriage and the laws of the home 5. Black-white intermarriage, the backlash against miscegenation, and the push for racial amalgamation 6. Averting the crisis: the birth of the marriage education movement Epilogue Index.
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