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Marriage and violence : the early modern legacy
Title
Marriage and violence : the early modern legacy / Frances E. Dolan.
ISBN
0812240758 (alk. paper)
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
Physical Description
235 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 21, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-223) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Flesh, two heads : debating the biblical blueprint for marriage in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries
Battered women, petty traitors, and the legacy of coverture
Fighting for the breeches, sharing the rod : spouses, servants, and the struggle for equality
How a maiden keeps her head : Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and the perils of marriage
Afterword.
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