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Marriage Discourses: Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation

Marriage Discourses: Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation

Mohammed, Jowan A.
Jacob, Frank

Hardcover

General World History

ISBN10: 311075133X
ISBN13: 9783110751338
Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Published: Dec 6 2021
Pages: 265
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Marriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of exploitation of women in many regards. Women were often considered commodities and marriage was far away from the romantic stereotypes people relate to it today. While marriages served as diplomatic tools or means of political legitimization in the past, the discourses about marital relationships changed and women expressed their demands more openly. Discourses about marriage in history and literature naturally became more and more heated, especially during the long 19th century, when marriages were contested by social reformers or political radicals, male and female alike. The present volume provides a discussion of the role of marriage and the discourses about in different chronological and geographical contexts and shows which arguments played an important role for the demand for more equality in martial relationships. It focuses on marriage discourses, may they have been legal or rather socio-political ones. In addition, the disputes about marriage in literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries are presented to complement the historical debates.

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