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In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that surfaced within their own households and in the larger society during the Civil War era. Based on literary as well as legal sources, Bardaglio's analysis reveals how legal contests involving African Americans, women, children, and the poor led to a rethinking of families, sexuality, and the so

Domestic relations -- Southern States -- History. --- Families -- Southern States -- History. --- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877). --- Southern States -- Social conditions. --- Domestic relations --- Families --- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Law - U.S. - General --- Law - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- History --- Reconstruction (Amerikaanse geschiedenis, 1865-1877) --- Reconstruction (Histoire des Etats-Unis, 1865-1877) --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Carpetbag rule (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Reconstruction (1865-1877) --- Family law --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Law and legislation --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Postwar reconstruction --- Persons (Law) --- Sex and law --- History. --- Southern States --- Social conditions.