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Zusatztext `This book contains more insights into the realities of Victorian sexual politics than most recent work in the field .... an originality of analysis and a sureness of method which ought to be models of their kind. For students of masculinity! marriage and feminist discourse! this is an indispensable text.' - John Tosh! History Workshop Journal`Admirable! with many features that immediately put it in a different class ... fascinatingly subtle.' - Michael Mason! London Review of Books`A stimulating! critical and cogent contribution to an important debate.' - Martin Pugh! History`This fascinating account ... is important background reading for all who rae concerned about marital violence today.' - Gwyneth Price! Every Woman`This original! imaginative and important book brings together concerns about gender! the family! and wider currents in British social! cultural and even political experience in the second half of the nineteenth century.' - Leonore Davidoff! University of Essex Informationen zum Autor A. James Hammerton Klappentext "Cruelty and Companionship is an account of the darker side of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Drawing upon previously unpublished material from the records of divorce and matrimonial proceedings in magistrates' courts, the author challenges popular views about changing family patterns, and gives new insights into the sexual politics of everyday life and the routine tensions which shaped 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 also charts the growing critique of men's behavior in marriage which increasingly demanded regulation and reform. By examining critical discourse on the subject of marriage, ranging from paternalist to feminist views, this study takes an unprecedented look at the origins and trajectory of nineteenth-century feminism, legal change. Zusammenfassung `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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
