Katie Barclay

Love, Intimacy and Power (eBook, ePUB)

Marriage and patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2012 Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History and the 2012 Women's History Network (UK) Book Prize

Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book explores how ideas around the nature of emotional intimacy, love and friendship within marriage adapted to a modernising economy and society. Patriarchy continued to be the central model for marriage across the period and as a result, women found spaces to hold power within the family, but could not translate it to power beyond the household. Comparing the Scottish experience to that across Europe and North America, Barclay shows that throughout the eighteenth century, far from being a side-note in European history, Scottish ideas about gender and marriage became culturally dominant.

Now available in paperback, this book will be vital to those studying and teaching Scottish social history, and those interested in the history of marriage and gender. It will also appeal to feminists interested in the history of patriarchy.

'An important and original study'
WHN Book Prize 2012 Judges

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847797964
• Artikelnr.: 44001010

Autorenporträt

Katie Barclay is a Research Fellow in Irish Studies at Queen's University, Belfast.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: thinking patriarchy 2. Marriage within
Scottish culture 3. The first step to marriage: courtship 4. The
construction of patriarchy: love, obligation and obedience 5. The
negotiation of patriarchy: intimacy, friendship and duty 6. The ambiguities
of patriarchy: the marital economy 7. When negotiation fails: the abuses of
patriarchy 8. Conclusion: rethinking patriarchy Select bibliography Index