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Marital violence : an English family history, 1660-1875 /
This book exposes the 'hidden' history of marital violence and explores its place in English family life between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time before divorce was easily available and when husbands were popularly believed to have the right to beat their wives, El...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book exposes the 'hidden' history of marital violence and explores its place in English family life between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time before divorce was easily available and when husbands were popularly believed to have the right to beat their wives, Elizabeth Foyster examines the variety of ways in which men, women and children responded to marital violence. For contemporaries this was an issue that raised central questions about family life: the extent of men's authority over other family members, the limitations of women's property rights, and the problems of access to divorce and child custody. Opinion about the legitimacy of marital violence continued to be divided but by the nineteenth century ideas about what was intolerable or cruel violence had changed significantly. This accessible study will be invaluable reading for anyone interested in gender studies, feminism, social history and family history. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-274) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511130554 9780511130557 0511300506 9780511300509 1107149533 9781107149533 1280225645 9781280225642 0511495803 9780511495809 0511129025 9780511129025 |