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Book Review: Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial Europe

racial borders. Donovan’s portrayal of historical circumstances relies on synthesizing existing research. To be sure, he has done his homework, drawing upon recent studies, like Rebecca L. Davis, More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss (2010) and Alison Lefkovitz, Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women’s Liberation (2018), as well as older books, like Stephanie Coonz, The Way We Never Were (1992) and J. Herbie DiFonzo, Beneath the Fault Line: The Popular and Legal Culture of Divorce in Twentieth-Century America (1997). Nonetheless, to say that crisis and change in gender norms and family ideals drives moral panics that latch onto the gold digger as a cause, with legal challenges and reforms as the consequence, loses its power when repeated for each era. When Donovan unravels trials, he overcomes this tendency to generalize by explicating instances where culture and law interact. Unfortunately, he provides only a cursory nod to the processes of influence. He could have drawn upon reader response theory and other explanations of how popular culture shapes perceptions and thought. Despite this theoretical gap, American Gold Digger is a good read, suitable for undergraduate teaching, one that brings class back into intersectional analysis, as it illustrates shifts in gender and family ideals through tales told and retold. With American Gold Digger, legal storytelling gains a place in the study of popular culture and the history of the family.