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What Trouble I Have Seen - A History of Violence against Wives (Paperback, New Ed)
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What Trouble I Have Seen - A History of Violence against Wives (Paperback, New Ed)
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It was 1869 and Sarah Moses, with "a very black eye," told her
father: The world will never know what trouble I have seen. What
she'd seen was violence at the hands of her husband. Does the world
know any more of such things today than it did in Sarah's time?
Sarah, it so happens, lived in Oregon, that Edenic state on the
Pacific Coast, and it is here that David Peterson del Mar centers
his history of violence against wives. What causes such violence?
Has it changed over time? How does it relate to the state of
society as a whole? And how have women tried to stop it, resist it,
escape it? These are the questions Peterson del Mar pursues, and
the answers he finds are as fascinating as they are disturbing.
Thousands of thickly documented divorce cases from the Oregon
circuit courts let us listen to voices who often go unheard. These
are the people who didn't keep diaries or leave autobiographies,
who sometimes could not write at all. Here they speak of a society
that quietly condoned wife beating until the spread of an ethos of
self-restraint in the late nineteenth century. And then, Peterson
del Mar finds, the practice increased with a vengeance with the
florescence of expressive individualism during the twentieth
century. What Trouble I Have Seen also traces a dramatic shift in
wives' response to their husbands' violence. Settler and Native
American women commonly fought abusive mates. Most wives of the
late nineteenth century acted more cautiously and relied on others
for protection. But twentieth-century privatism, Peterson del Mar
discovers, often isolated modern wives from family and neighbors,
casting abused women on the mercy of the police, women's shelters,
and, most important, their own resources. Thus a new emphasis on
self-determination, even as it stimulated violence among men,
enhanced the ability of women to resist and escape violent
husbands. The first sustained history of violence toward wives,
What Trouble I Have Seen offers remarkable testimony to the impact
of social trends on the most private arrangements, and the
resilience of women subject to a seemingly timeless crime.
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