'original, imaginative and challenging...brings concerns together about gender, the family, and wider currents in British social, cultural and even political experience in the second half of the 19th century.' - Leonore Davidoff
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Complete description
Cruelty and Companionship is an account of the intimate but darker sides of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Hammerton draws upon previously unpublished material from the records of the divorce court and magistrates' courts to challenge many popular views about changing family patterns. His findings open a rare window onto the sexual politics of everyday life and the routine tensions which conditioned marriage in middle and working class families. Using contemporary evidence ranging from prescriptive texts and public debate to autobiography and fiction, Hammerton examines the intense public scrutiny which accompanied the routine exposure of marital breakdown, and charts a growing critique of men's behaviour in marriage which increasingly demanded regulation and reform. The critical discourse which resulted, ranging from paternalist to feminist, casts new light on the origins and trajectory of nineteenth century feminism, legal change and our understanding of the changing expression of masculinity.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Routledge
City:
London
Pages:
248
More info:
height 234 mm
width 156 mm
weight 572 gr
thickness 24 mm
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC20) 306.810942
Library of Congress Subject: HQ615.H357
Record updated at:
19 February, 2013
time:
06:58
Summary
Cruelty and Companionship
Section One: Working-Class Marriage 1. The Targets of 'Rough Music': Respectability and Domestic Violence 2. 'Rough Usage' Section Two: Middle-Class Marriage 3. Companionate Marriage and the Challenge to Patriarchy 4. Cruelty and Divorce 5. The Adaptation of Patriarchy in Late-Victorian Marriage Conclusion
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