Courtship, marriage and marriage breakdown: approaches from the history of emotion

"This book explores the history of marriage and marriage-like relationships across five continents from the seventeenth century to the present day. Across fourteen chapters, leading marriage scholars examine how the methodologies from the new history of emotions contribute to our understanding...

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Weitere Verfasser: Barclay, Katie (HerausgeberIn), Meek, Jeffrey 1971- (HerausgeberIn), Thomson, Andrea 1978- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Routledge 2020
Schriftenreihe:Routledge research in gender and history
Routledge research in gender and history
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Zusammenfassung:"This book explores the history of marriage and marriage-like relationships across five continents from the seventeenth century to the present day. Across fourteen chapters, leading marriage scholars examine how the methodologies from the new history of emotions contribute to our understanding of marriage, seeking not only to uncover personal feeling but the political and social implications of emotion. They highlight how marriage as an institution has been shaped not just by law and society but by individual and community choices, desires and emotional values. Importantly, they also emphasize how the history of non-traditional and same-sex relationships and their emotions have long played an important role in determining the nature of marriage as an institution and emotional union. In doing so, this collection allows us to rethink both the past and present of marriage, destabilizing a story of a stable institution and opening it up as a site of contest, debate and feeling"--
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 11, 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 237 pages)
ISBN:9781000734027
1000734021
9780367824228
0367824221
9781000733686
1000733688
9781000733853
1000733858

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