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Marriage, Law and Modernity Julia Moses (University of Sheffield, UK)

Marriage, Law and Modernity By Julia Moses (University of Sheffield, UK)

Marriage, Law and Modernity by Julia Moses (University of Sheffield, UK)


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Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories by Julia Moses (University of Sheffield, UK)

Marriage, Law and Modernity offers a global perspective on the modern history of marriage. Widespread recent debate has focused on the changing nature of families, characterized by both the rise of unmarried cohabitation and the legalization of same-sex marriage. However, historical understanding of these developments remains limited. How has marriage come to be the target of national legislation? Are recent policies on same-sex marriage part of a broader transformation? And, has marriage come to be similar across the globe despite claims about national, cultural and religious difference? This collection brings together scholars from across the world in order to offer a global perspective on the history of marriage. It unites legal, political and social history, and seeks to draw out commonalities and differences by exploring connections through empire, international law and international migration.

Marriage, Law and Modernity Reviews

This is an enormously rich trousseau of legal histories of marriage and human rights from all continents, by an eminent gathering of historians. * Goeran Therborn, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK, author of Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900-2000 *
Using the lens of legal, political, and religious discourses over marriage, the contributors to Marriage, Law and Modernity shed fascinating new light on the complex and highly contested nature of larger processes of modernization and globalization since the eighteenth century. This volume is a highly valuable source for anyone interested in the history of gender, colonialism, and the modern state and its laws. * Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington, USA *

About Julia Moses (University of Sheffield, UK)

Julia Moses is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of The First Modern Risk: Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Welfare States (2018) and the co-editor of The Impact of Ideas on Legal Development (2012).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Making Marriage 'Modern', Julia Moses (University of Sheffield, UK) Part I: Marriage and Forms of the Family 1. From Liberalism to Human Dignity: The Transformation of Marriage and Family Rights in Brazil, 1822-2013, Sueann Caulfield (University of Michigan, USA) 2. From Toleration to Prosecution: Concubinage and the Law in Modern China, Lisa Tran (California State University at Fullerton, USA) 3. The Birth of Mistresses and Bastards: A History of Marriage in Siam (Thailand), Tamara Loos (Cornell University, USA) 4. Royal Marriage in Europe: An Inherently Conservative System, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (University of Oxford, UK) Part II: Marriage, Religion and the State 5. 'Til death do you part': Catholicism, Marriage and Culture War in Austria(-Hungary), Ulrike Harmat (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) 6. Modernizing Marriage in Egypt, Kenneth M. Cuno (University of Illinois, USA) 7. 'A Babel of Law': Hindu Marriage, Global Spaces and Intimate Subjects in Late Nineteenth-Century India, Leigh Denault (University of Cambridge, UK) 8. English Exports: Invoking the Common Law of Marriage across the Empire in the Nineteenth Century, Rebecca Probert (University of Warwick, UK) Part III: Marriage, Kinship and Community 9. Finding the Ordinary in the Extraordinary: Marriage Norms and Bigamy in Canada, Melanie Methot (University of Alberta, Augustana Campus, Canada) 10. Equality before the Law? The Intermarriage Debate in Post-Nazi Germany, Julia Woesthoff (DePaul University, USA) 11. Customary and Civil Marriage Law and the Question of Gender Equality in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Gabon and Africa, Rachel Jean-Baptiste (University of California at Davis, USA) Postscript: How History Matters in Same-Sex Marriage Rights, Nancy F. Cott (Harvard University, USA)

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NLS9781350112384
9781350112384
1350112380
Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories by Julia Moses (University of Sheffield, UK)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2019-05-30
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