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Marriage Discourses - Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation (Hardcover)
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Marriage Discourses - Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation (Hardcover)
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Marriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of
exploitation of women in many regards. Women were often considered
commodities and marriage was far away from the romantic stereotypes
people relate to it today. While marriages served as diplomatic
tools or means of political legitimization in the past, the
discourses about marital relationships changed and women expressed
their demands more openly. Discourses about marriage in history and
literature naturally became more and more heated, especially during
the "long" 19th century, when marriages were contested by social
reformers or political radicals, male and female alike. The present
volume provides a discussion of the role of marriage and the
discourses about in different chronological and geographical
contexts and shows which arguments played an important role for the
demand for more equality in martial relationships. It focuses on
marriage discourses, may they have been legal or rather
socio-political ones. In addition, the disputes about marriage in
literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries are presented to
complement the historical debates.
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