Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present

Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present
by Elizabeth Pleck

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Elizabeth Pleck's "Domestic Tyranny" chronicles the rise and demise of legal, political, and medical campaigns against domestic violence from colonial times to the present. Based on in-depth research into court records, newspaper accounts, and autobiographies, this book argues that the single most consistent barrier to reform against domestic violence has been the Family Ideal - that is, ideas about family privacy, conjugal and parental rights, and family stability. This edition features a new introduction surveying the multinational and cultural themes now present in recent historical writing about family violence.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #190257 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-24
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: .94" h x 6.02" w x 8.94" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
Sarah Barringer Gordon (Author)
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From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law. Did principles of religious freedom and local self-government protect Mormons' claim to a distinct, religiously based legal order? Or was polygamy, as its opponents claimed, a new form of slavery--this time for white women in Utah? And did constitutional principles dictate that democracy and true liberty were founded on separation of church and state?

As Sarah Barringer Gordon shows, the answers to these questions finally yielded an apparent victory for antipolygamists in the late nineteenth century, but only after decades of argument, litigation, and open conflict. Victory came at a price; as attention and national resources poured into Utah in the late 1870s and 1880s, antipolygamists turned more and more to coercion and punishment in the name of freedom. They also left a legacy in constitutional law and political theory that still governs our treatment of religious life: Americans are free to believe, but they may well not be free to act on their beliefs.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #105944 in eBooks
• Published on: 2002-01-21
• Released on: 2001-12-01
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1