SELFISH INTENTIONS - K-REx - Kansas State University
SELFISH INTENTIONS - K-REx - Kansas State University
SELFISH INTENTIONS - K-REx - Kansas State University
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to open up an analysis, not just of the law, but of how individuals used the law. Chapter One<br />
includes a discussion on the evolution of divorce law in the United <strong>State</strong>s. Chapter Two focuses<br />
on <strong>Kansas</strong> law and examines the uses that two particular women made of that law to act on their<br />
own behalf. Chapter Three examines the growing controversy in the late nineteenth century<br />
<strong>Kansas</strong> regarding the rising divorce rate and uses a controversial Clay County case to highlight<br />
some of the judicial concerns about the “abuses” of the law.