S. Livingston

Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a unifying thread from the Middle Ages up through the twentieth-century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137010865
• Artikelnr.: 46753968

Autorenporträt

Sally A. Livingston is Assistant Professor of Humanities-Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Silence and Women's Authority Property's History, Property's Literature Silence, Language, Sexuality Medieval Women Reject Marriage: Heloise and Marie de France Sexual Purity as Property: Vie Seinte Audree, and The Book of Margery Kempe Property and Propriety in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England: Burney, Austen, Eliot Virginia Woolf's Women, Trapped and Freed Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russia: Women Writers Reject the Marriage Plot Why Are Women Poor?