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1028418
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b782788
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| Main Entry
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Hammerton, A. James.
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| Title & Author
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Cruelty and companionship : : conflict in nineteenth-century married life /\ A. James Hammerton.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1992.
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viii, 236 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0415036224
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: 0415133688
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: 9780415036221
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: 9780415133685
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-228) and index.
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| Contents
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pt. I. Working-class marriage. 1. The Targets of 'Rough Music': Respectability and Domestic Violence. 2. 'Rough Usage'. The incidence of violence. Controlling violence: the limits of reform -- pt. II. Middle-class marriage. 3. Companionate Marriage and the Challenge to Patriarchy. Prescriptive literature and the rise in expectations. Case studies in contested authority. 4. Cruelty and Divorce. The public face of middle-class marriage. The concept of matrimonial cruelty: judicial interventions. 5. The Adaptation of Patriarchy in Late-Victorian Marriage. Evidence from autobiography. Masculinity and the limits of companionate marriage -- Appendix 1: A note on sources: court records and family history -- Appendix 2: Street ballads celebrating the attack on General Haynau -- Appendix 3: Lancashire dialect poetry on domestic relationships.
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Cruelty and Companionship is an account of the intimate but darker side of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Hammerton draws upon previously unpublished material from the records of the divorce court and magistrates' courts to challenge many popular views about family patterns. His findings open a rare window on the sexual politics of everyday life and the routine tensions which conditioned 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 charts a growing critique of men's behavior in marriage which increasingly demanded regulation and reform. The resulting critical discourse, ranging from paternalist to feminist, casts new light on the origins and trajectory of nineteenth-century feminism, legal change, and our understanding of the changing expression of masculinity. Cruelty and Companionship will appeal to students and teachers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century social history and gender studies. It should also interest students of family sociology and social work, and general readers interested in family relationships, domestic violence and women.
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Divorce-- England-- History-- 19th century.
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Domestic relations-- England-- History-- 19th century.
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Marital violence-- England-- History-- 19th century.
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Marriage-- England-- History-- 19th century.
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Marriage.
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15.70 history of Europe.
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Divorce-- Great Britain-- History.
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Divorce.
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Domestic relations-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Domestic relations.
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Family violence-- Great Britain-- 19th century.
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Marital violence.
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Marriage-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Marriage.
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Conflicten.
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Echtscheiding.
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Huwelijk.
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Mishandeling.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.82/92/094209034
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| LC Classification
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HQ615.H357 1992
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15.70bcl
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367.4njb/06
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367.4njb/6
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7,26ssgn
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71.22bcl
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