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State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies
Leslie J. Harris
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781481300513
SKU
V9781481300513
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About Leslie J. Harris
Leslie J. Harris is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Reviews for State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies
"Carefully argued, grounded in archival research, and packed with historical detail, State of the Marital Union elucidates the complex rhetorical intersections of national identity, sexual morality, familial ideology, and normative notions of race and gender in the discourses accompanying some of the 19 th century's most sensational public controversies."
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