Fashioning Adultery
Subtitle: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 16601740 (Past and Present Publications)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521792448
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Gender Studies; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; England; Social Science; Sociology; Marriage; Western Europe - General; History / Great Britain; Adultery; 17th century; 18th century; History; Social life and customs
First sentence: In 1675 an anonymous author set forth a series of proposals explaining 'why a Law should pass in England to punish Adultery with Death'.