i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Household Constitution and Family Relationships -- The American Family in Past Time -- Parental Power and Marriage Patterns: An Analysis of Historical Trends in Hingham, Massachusetts -- Family History and Demographic Transition -- Naming, Kinship, and Estate Dispersal: Notes on Slave Family Life on a South Carolina Plantation, 1786 to 1833 -- “The Thing Not Its Vision”: A Woman’s Courtship and Her Sphere in the Southern Planter Class -- A Slave Family in the Ante Bellum South -- Antebellum Southern Households: A New Perspective on a Familiar Question -- Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation South -- Mother Love and Infant Death, 1750–1920 -- Wife Beating in Nineteenth-Century America -- Family Limitation, Sexual Control, and Domestic Feminism in Victorian America -- The Origins of the Female-Headed Black Family: The Impact of the Urban Experience -- Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygyny -- Polygamy and the Frontier: Mormon Women in Early Utah -- Korean Women Pioneers of The Pacific Northwest -- Loving Courtship or the Marriage Market? The Ideal and Its Critics 1871–1911 -- Women and Migration: Autonomous Female Migrants to Chicago, 1880–1930 -- Amerika Nodeshiko: Japanese Immigrant Women in the United States, 1900-1924 -- Single Mothers and Child Neglect, 1880–1920 -- Demographic Change and the Life Cycles of American Families -- Updating the Life Cycle of the Family -- Copyright Information -- Index