British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 3
British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 3

Author: Claudia Nelson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-17

Total Pages: 2064

ISBN-13: 1000560872

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The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social change. It will appeal to scholars of social history, gender studies and the long nineteenth century.

The Family in America [2 volumes]
The Family in America [2 volumes]

Author: Joseph M. Hawes

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-05-22

Total Pages: 1108

ISBN-13: 1576077039

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An incisive, multidisciplinary look at the American family over the past 200 years, written by respected scholars and researchers. Family in America offers two powerful antidotes to popular misconceptions about American family life: historical perspective and scientific objectivity. When we look back at our early history, we discover that the idealized 1950s family—characterized by a rising birthrate, a stable divorce rate, and a declining age of marriage—was a historical aberration, out of line with long-term historical trends. Working mothers, we learn, are not a 20th century invention; most families throughout American history have needed more than one breadwinner. In the exciting new scholarship described here, readers will learn precisely what is new in American family life and what is not, and acquire the perspective they need to appreciate both the genuine improvements and the losses that come with change.

The Matrimonial Trap
The Matrimonial Trap

Author: Laura E. Thomason

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2013-12-05

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1611485274

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Mary Delany’s phrase “the matrimonial trap” illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely choosing a husband. They faced marriage anxiously because they lacked the power either to avoid it or to define it for themselves. For some women, the written word became a means by which to exercise the power that they otherwise lacked. Through their writing, they made the inevitable acceptable while registering their dissatisfaction with their circumstances. Rhetoric, exercised both in public and in private, allowed these women to define their identities as individuals and as wives, to lay out and test the boundaries of more egalitarian spousal relationships, and to criticize the traditional marriage system as their culture had defined it.