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: value: Introduction; value: Flesh, two heads : debating the biblical blueprint for marriage in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries; value: Battered women, petty traitors, and the legacy of coverture; value: Fighting for the breeches, sharing the rod : spouses, servants, and the struggle for equality; value: How a maiden keeps her head : Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and the perils of marriage; value: Afterword.