Marriage, property, and women's narratives
By: Sally A. Livingston
Series: New middle ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780230115064
Subjects: Right of property; Women; Married women; Economic conditions; History
Description: Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives addresses Virginia Woolf's question, 'Why are women poor?' Drawing from three different time periods and three distinct legal models of female property ownership, this study investigates how women writers frame their responses to both owning property and being property within the context of marriage. Beginning with the Middle Ages, Sally A. Livingston traces the loss of women's economic rights and skillfully argues that literary narratives allow these writers to take possession of property they would not otherwise be able to own.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.