{"id":494,"date":"2018-02-28T19:28:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T00:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=494"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:17:06","slug":"prof-will-kubys-book-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2018\/02\/28\/prof-will-kubys-book-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Will Kuby&#8217;s Book Published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #999999\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/history\/profiles\/faculty\/cwj332.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Will Kuby<\/a>&#8216;s book,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399\"><em>Conjugal\u00a0Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United\u00a0States<\/em><\/span><\/span>, has been published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/conjugal-misconduct\/F4F64C2EE6CD653AB273E56CDAA79021#fndtn-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cambridge University Press<\/a> and is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Conjugal-Misconduct-Twentieth-Century-Cambridge-Historical\/dp\/110716026X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available for purchase<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/02\/kuby_conjugal_misconduct.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-495 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/02\/kuby_conjugal_misconduct.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/02\/kuby_conjugal_misconduct.jpg 180w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/02\/kuby_conjugal_misconduct-132x200.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #333399\"><em><strong>Conjugal Misconduct<\/strong><\/em><\/span> reveals the hidden history of controversial and legally contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. William Kuby examines the experiences of couples in unconventional unions and the legal and cultural backlash generated by a wide array of &#8216;alternative&#8217; marriages. These include marriages established through personal advertisements and matchmaking bureaus, marriages that defied state eugenic regulations, hasty marriages between divorced persons, provisional and temporary unions referred to as &#8216;trial marriages&#8217;, racial intermarriages, and a host of other unions that challenged sexual and marital norms. In illuminating the tensions between those who set marriage policies and those who defied them, Kuby offers a fresh account of marriage&#8217;s contested history, arguing that although marital nonconformists composed only a small minority of the population, their atypical arrangements nonetheless shifted popular understandings of marriage and consistently refashioned the legal parameters of the institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Reviews<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph_01 no-margin-bottom\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Advance praise: &#8216;The belief that marriage as an institution is in crisis is nothing new, historian William Kuby shows us in this engaging study of early twentieth-century marital nonconformists who pushed boundaries by engaging in trial marriages, serial polygamy, or interracial marriage, among other challenges to the norm. But while &#8216;queer&#8217; couples generated a conservative backlash, Conjugal Misconduct demonstrates that even perceived challenges to the institution of marriage could serve to reinforce its power and influence in American social life.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_07\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Renee Romano &#8211; Oberlin College, Ohio<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_01 no-margin-bottom\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Advance praise: &#8216;Conjugal Misconduct provides the definitive study of the &#8216;amorphousness&#8217; of the institution of marriage between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Nonconforming heterosexual couples pursued every angle to evade restrictive state laws, often crossing state lines to find a more lenient marital regime. Their acts of defiance reshaped marital legitimacy, while revealing that the law itself could not constrain conjugal choices. For anyone who still clings to notions of marriage\u2019s static, coherent past, this deftly written and deeply researched book proves that improvisation and even chaos shaped the legal history of heterosexual marriage.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_07\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Rebecca L. Davis &#8211; University of Delaware<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_01 no-margin-bottom\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Advance praise: &#8216;An informative and provocative account of how various groups and individuals have pushed to widen the definition and extend the benefits of marriage, often with unintended results.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_07\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Stephanie Coontz &#8211; Evergreen State College, and author of <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Will Kuby&#8217;s book,\u00a0Conjugal\u00a0Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United\u00a0States, has been published by Cambridge University Press and is now available for purchase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2018\/02\/28\/prof-will-kubys-book-published\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[35426,35044,35702,92693],"class_list":{"0":"post-494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-department-news","8":"category-faculty-news","9":"tag-department-news","10":"tag-faculty-news","11":"tag-why-history-matters","12":"tag-william-kuby","13":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prof. Will Kuby&#039;s Book Published - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2018\/02\/28\/prof-will-kubys-book-published\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prof. Will Kuby&#039;s Book Published - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prof. Will Kuby&#039;s book,\u00a0Conjugal\u00a0Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United\u00a0States, has been published by Cambridge University Press and is now available for purchase.  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