
Marriage Discourses
Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation
De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 13. August 2024
Book
Hardback
V, 260 pages
978-3-11-075133-8 (ISBN)
Description
Marriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of exploitation of women in many regards. Women were often considered commodities and marriage was far away from the romantic stereotypes people relate to it today. While marriages served as diplomatic tools or means of political legitimization in the past, the discourses about marital relationships changed and women expressed their demands more openly. Discourses about marriage in history and literature naturally became more and more heated, especially during the "long" 19th century, when marriages were contested by social reformers or political radicals, male and female alike. The present volume provides a discussion of the role of marriage and the discourses about in different chronological and geographical contexts and shows which arguments played an important role for the demand for more equality in martial relationships. It focuses on marriage discourses, may they have been legal or rather socio-political ones. In addition, the disputes about marriage in literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries are presented to complement the historical debates.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/München/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
2 farbige Abbildungen
2 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
604 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-075133-8 (9783110751338)
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions

Jowan A. Mohammed | Frank Jacob
Marriage Discourses
Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation
E-Book
12/2021
1st Edition
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
€0.00
Available for download

Jowan A. Mohammed | Frank Jacob
Marriage Discourses
Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation
E-Book
12/2021
1st Edition
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
€0.00
Available for download
Persons
Frank Jacob
, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway;
Jowan A. Mohammed
, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway.