Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895 / / Mary Lyndon Shanley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Shanley, Mary Lyndon,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1. What Kind of a Contract Is Marriage?: Married Women's Property, the Sexual Double Standard, and the Divorce Act of 1857 --; CHAPTER 2. Equal Rights and Spousal Friendship: The Married Women's Property Act of 1870 --; CHAPTER 3. The Unity of the Moral Law: Prostitution, Infanticide, and Employment --; CHAPTER 4. An Ambiguous Victory: The Married Women's Property Act of 1882 --; CHAPTER 5. Parliament's Rejection of Parental Equality: The Infant Custody Act of 1886 --; CHAPTER 6. A Husband's Right to His Wife's Body: Wife Abuse, the Restitution of Conjugal Rights, and Marital Rape --; EPILOGUE. The Search for Spousal Equality: A Legacy for Feminists --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691215983; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691215983?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mary Lyndon Shanley.

Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. As Mary Shanley shows, Victorian feminists argued that justice for women would not follow from public rights alone, but required a fundamental transformation of the marriage relationship.