Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce [Hardcover]

Samuel Menefee (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (December 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312886292
• ISBN-13: 978-0312886295
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,323,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Sam Menefee (1950-date) was born in Denver, Colorado, coming of age in Louisiana and Virginia. He obtained degrees from Yale (where he was a Scholar of the House), Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), Harvard Law, Virginia, and Cambridge. He has been affiliated with the Centers for Oceans Law and Policy and National Security Law at UVA for over a quarter century, and currently serves as an adjunct professor at World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden. Menefee is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Anthropological Institute; his first book, Wives for Sale, won the inaugural Katharine Briggs Prize of the Folklore Society. He has been admitted to the bars of seven states and the District of Columbia and is a recognized expert on piracy and maritime terrorism, having written over fifty-five chapters and articles on the subject, and been made a Huntingdon Fellow by the Mariners' Museum. Over the years, Menefee has tramped Hadrian's Wall and the Pennine Way, stalked red deer in the Highlands and hunted in Mozambique, sailed in the Bahamas and john-boated down the Yukon, rowed three times for the Oxford Lightweights and written a musical, and climbed in the Highlands and Alps (just making it to the top of Mount Sinai on a recent trip). Not yet content to raise bees in the country, he looks forward to new academic interests and other challenges.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An exhaustive legal review of a compelling social phenomon, August 24, 1997

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This review is from: Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce (Hardcover)

A Rhodes Scholar, Mr. Menefee has captured the legal nuances and social impact of the status of divorce in Great Britan. A thorough, if dated, work of original research