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Wife to widow : lives, laws, and politics in nineteenth-century Montreal /
The diversity of women's lives as wives then as widows negotiating the law, patriarchy, family relationships, and the economy in 19th-century Montreal come alive in this first major study of widows in Canada.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1 : Marriage, identity, and the law. 1 Marriage metropole : mobility and marriage in early-nineteenth century Montreal; 2 Companionate patriarchies : money matters and marriage; 3 Marriage trajectories : class, choices, and chance; 4 "Dower this barbarous law" : debating marriage and widows' rights; 5 Imagining widowhood and death : marriage contracts, wills, and funeral provisions.