Title Intimate partner violence in New Orleans : gender, race, and reform, 1840-1900 / Ashley Baggett

Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) Contents Cover; Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One "Husbands Are Men, Not Angels" Gender and Intimate Partner Violence in Antebellum New Orleans; Chapter Two "We Are All Men" Transforming Gender Expectations in New Orleans during the Civil War and Reconstruction; Chapter Three "Strike Me If You Dare" Abused Women of New Orleans and the Right to Be Free from Violence; Chapter Four "You Can't Abuse Her in This House" Family, Community, and Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans Chapter Five "The Rule of Love Has Superseded the Rule of Force" The Criminalization of Intimate Partner Violence in New OrleansChapter Six "It Will Be Done to Maintain White Supremacy" The Decline of Intervention in the South; Epilogue Gender and Intimate Partner Violence in the Early 1900s; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary The history of the challenges faced by women of all races in the Crescent City Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 30, 2017) Subject Spousal abuse -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century Women -- Abuse of -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century Family violence -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 19th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) African Americans -- Social conditions Family violence Race relations Spousal abuse Women -- Abuse of SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017025890 ISBN 9781496815255 1496815254

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