Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England
by
Joan Perkin
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1138009016
ISBN-13
9781138009011
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 14th, 2014
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
408 grams
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Joan Perkin demonstrates clearly in this book that women were not content to remain inferior to men in the 'bonds of matrimony'.
The ''bonds of matrimony'' describes with cruel precision the social and political status of married women in the nineteenth century. Women of all classes had only the most limited rights of possession in their own bodies and property yet, as this remarkable book shows, women of all classes found room to manoeuvre within the narrow limits imposed on them. Upper-class women frequently circumvented the onerous limitations of the law, while middle-class women sought through reform to change their legal status. For working-class women, such legal changes were irrelevant, but they too found ways to ameliorate their position. Joan Perkin demonstrates clearly in this outstanding book, full of human insights, that women were not content to remain inferior or subservient to men.
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