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Breaking the ties that bound : the politics of marital strife in late imperial Russia
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Breaking the ties that bound : the politics of marital strife in late imperial Russia / Barbara Alpern Engel.
ISBN
9780801449512 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801449510 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 27, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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