Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy

by Frances E. Dolan

Book Overview

Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what--or who--must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict.

Dolan ranges over sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Puritan advice literature, sensational accounts of "true crime," and late twentieth-century marriage manuals and films about battered women...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812240758
• ISBN13: 9780812240757
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"