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Unquiet Lives - Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660-1800 (Paperback)
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Unquiet Lives - Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660-1800 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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Based on vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this
2003 book is a pioneering account of the expectations and
experiences of married life among the middle and labouring ranks in
the long eighteenth century. Its original methodology draws
attention to the material life of marriage, which has long been
dominated by theories of emotional shifts or fashionable accounts
of spouses' gendered, oppositional lives. Thus it challenges
preconceptions about authority in the household, by showing the
extent to which husbands depended upon their wives' vital economic
activities: household management and child care. Not only did this
forge co-dependency between spouses, it undermined men's autonomy.
The power balance within marriage is further revised by evidence
that the sexual double standard was not rigidly applied in everyday
life. The book also shows that ideas about adultery and domestic
violence evolved in the eighteenth century, influenced by new
models of masculinity and femininity.
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