Table of Contents

Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: From Patriarchy to Companionship 2. Divorce Documents and Divorce Seekers 3. Ideal Womanhood in California 4. Dimensions of Womanhood: Domesticity, Chastity, and Independence 5. Ideal Manhood in California 6. Manhood and the Companionate Ideal 7. Parents and Children in Nineteenth-Century California Afterword: The Family, Victorian Culture, and Twentieth-Century Developments Appendix: Composition of the Social Classes Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Robert Griswold is assistant professor history at the University of Oklahoma.