Marital Violence
An English Family History, 1660-1857
Foyster, Elizabeth A.
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In a time before divorce was generally accepted and husbands assumed the right to beat their wives, Elizabeth Foyster examines the variety of ways in which men, women and children responded to marital violence. This issue raised central questions concerning the extent of men's authority over other family members, the limitations of women's property rights, and the problems of access to divorce and child custody. Although opinion about the legitimacy of marital violence continued to be divided, Foyster demonstrates that beliefs determinig intolerable or cruel behavior had changed significantly by the nineteenth century.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0521834511
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 362.82/92/09420903
Library of Congress: 2005045785
Book Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 282
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