Dis/membering the Family - Marital Breakdown, Domestic Conflict, Family Violence in Ontario,

Summary

Explores the history of marital and family breakdown between 1830 and 1920 in Ontario. Using legal documents and criminal court records, this book probes and reconstructs some of the more obscure dimensions of marital and familial relations, illustrating how conflict, power, betrayal, and resistance exhibited themselves in conjugal relations.

Product details

• Authors: Annalee Lepp, LEPP ANNALEE
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2006
• EAN: 9780802089823
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-8982-3
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: Studies in Gender History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history