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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Companionate marriage"”.
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Conceptions of collaterality in modern Europe: Kinship ideologies from companionship to trusteeship
… accounts of intestate law, prohibitions on marriage, and socioeconomic sources seem useful for studying the interrelationship between family and society in four European countries (Austria, Finland, Germany, and Ireland). Some kinship models are ego-focused and are consistent with …
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Eve Disordered: The Relationship of Feminine Happiness and Hierarchy in Paradise Lost
… analysis of the simultaneously contractual and companionate marriage model that appears in Paradise Lost, paired with an appreciation for the historical context for Milton's depiction of the sexes in marriage reveals that Eve's relative subjection under God and Adam and the traits that render …
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Relational Selves in Eighteenth-Century Literature
… against the forces of communal obligation, when marriage emerged as a union based on singular affection, and when heterosexuality cohered as an ideology. But Relational Selves in Eighteenth Century Literature argues that a libertine logic of communal attraction, spontaneous affiliation, and …
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The Making of the Shrew: Comedy, Adaptation, and the Construction of Shakespeare's Cultural Authority on the Restoration and Eighteenth -Century Stage
… calls for the reassertion of male hegemony in marriage in order to criticize Charles II and imagine for the theater a moral authority that counters the king's power to license the stage. Charles Johnson's The Cobler of Preston (1716) uses Shakespeare to attempt to delimit access to, and …
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Promises broken: Breach of promise of marriage in England and Wales, 1753-1970
Breach of promise of marriage suits originated in the ecclesiastical courts; the Hardwicke Marriage Act, however, invalidated betrothals and forced jilted lovers to use the common law courts for redress. This study is based on 875 breach of promise cases in England and Wales between 1750 and 1970, …
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‘My name was mud!’: Women’s experiences of conformity and resistance in post-war Rhondda
… discourses surrounding the debates on companionate marriage. Utilising their own experiences of struggle and disadvantage, many of the cohort emphasised their support for increased opportunities for subsequent generations of Rhondda women.
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Marriage And Family In India
… dimensions of family life in contemporary India, marriage partner selection and female seclusion, using three different data sources: 48 interviews with the middle-class in New Delhi, panel survey data from the India Human Development Survey, and survey data from the Center for the Advanced Study …
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In Defense of Ugly Women
… in nineteenth-century Britain, especially for marriageable young women in the upper and middle class. My argument addresses the consequences of that change in the status of beauty for plain or ugly women, how this social shift is reflected in the novel, and how authors respond to the issue of …
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Working class community in the era of affluence : sociability and identity in a Yorkshire town, 1945-1980
… leisure. Post-war ideological emphasis on the companionate marriage and child-centred parenting also influenced social behaviour. But companions for both new and old forms of sociability were largely family, friends and acquaintances who also lived in the town – Beverley as a whole remained a …
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Images and perceptions of wives and daughters of the Victorian clergy
… a group biography of three women it looks at the companionate marriage of Henrietta and Samuel Barnett, in a partnership of shared projects, reform and delivery of the social gospel. Catherine Marsh was the daughter of an evangelical clergyman. Her role as 'daughter at home' never changed though …
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States of Suffering: Marital Cruelty in Antebellum Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin
This dissertation explores the nature of marriage, violence, and region in the mid-nineteenth-century United States. Based on more than 1,500 divorce cases, it argues that marriages were often characterized by open enmity, not companionate harmony. Violence and cruelty between spouses generally …
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Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays
… pregnancy challenged the dominant ideologies of companionate marriage and chastity in the period, as well as male surgeons’ attempts to enter the birthing chamber and gain control of gynecological knowledge. Through these readings, I put the pregnant body in conversation with queer theory more …