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Stray wives : marital conflict in early national New England /
Whereas my husband, Enoch Darling, has at sundry times used me in so improper and cruel a manner, as to destroy my happiness and endanger my life, and whereas he has not provided for me as a husband ought, but expended his time and money unadvisedly, at taverns ... I hereby notify the public that I...
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2005]
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Table des matières:
- Introduction
- A "disobedient, clamorous" wife : the problem of wifely submission
- "A trifling sum" : economic support and consumer spending in New England marriages
- "The duties of a wife" : the meaning of women's work
- "The wicked agency of others" : community involvement and marital discord
- "Having confidence in her own abilities" : coping with estrangement
- "Free and clear from all claims" : divorce and the contradictory nature of women's status
- Afterword: Settling "all matters of dispute" : marital conflict, negotiation, and compromise.