Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0511130554
9780511130557
0511300506
9780511300509
9780521834513
0521834511
9780521619127
0521619122
1107149533
9781107149533
1280225645
9781280225642
0511495803
9780511495809
0511129025
9780511129025
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-274) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This book exposes the 'hidden' history of marital violence and explores its place in English family life between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time before divorce was easily available and when husbands were popularly believed to have the right to beat their wives, Elizabeth Foyster examines the variety of ways in which men, women and children responded to marital violence. For contemporaries this was an issue that raised central questions about family life: 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. Opinion about the legitimacy of marital violence continued to be divided but by the nineteenth century ideas about what was intolerable or cruel violence had changed significantly. This accessible study will be invaluable reading for anyone interested in gender studies, feminism, social history and family history.
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| Other form: | Print version: Foyster, Elizabeth A., 1968- Marital violence. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521834511 0521619122
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