Breaking the Ties That Bound : The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia /

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Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal...

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Main Author: Engel, Barbara Alpern (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Family relationships.
Marriage.
Family policy.
Divorce.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Mariage.
Politique familiale > Russie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Politique familiale > Russie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes > Relations familiales > Russie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Relations familiales > Russie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Divorce > Russie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mariage > Russie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mariage > Russie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Marriage
Family Planning Policy
Family policy > Russia > History > 20th century.
Family policy > Russia > History > 19th century.
Women > Family relationships > Russia > History > 20th century.
Women > Family relationships > Russia > History > 19th century.
Divorce > Russia > History > 19th century.
Marriage > Russia > History > 20th century.
Marriage > Russia > History > 19th century.
Rusland.
Russia.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : marriage and its discontents
  • The ties that bound
  • Making marriage : romantic ideals and female rhetoric
  • Money matters
  • Disciplining laboring husbands
  • Earning my own crust of bread
  • Cultivating domesticity
  • The right to love
  • The best interests of the child
  • Conclusion : the politics of marital strife.

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