Marriage and violence
Subtitle: the early modern legacy
By: Frances E. Dolan.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780812240757
Subjects: Marriage -- History; Marriage -- England -- History; Marriage -- United States -- History; Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History; Marital violence; Abused wives; Sex role -- History; Sex discrimination against women -- History; Equality -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Flesh, two heads : debating the biblical blueprint for marriage in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries; title: Battered women, petty traitors, and the legacy of coverture; title: Fighting for the breeches, sharing the rod : spouses, servants, and the struggle for equality; title: How a maiden keeps her head : Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and the perils of marriage; title: Afterword.