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Marital Violence - An English Family History, 1660-1857 (Hardcover)
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Marital Violence - An English Family History, 1660-1857 (Hardcover)
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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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