Breaking the Bonds : : Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730-1830 / / Merril D. Smith.
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Smith, Merril D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Breaking the Bonds : Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730-1830 / Merril D. Smith. New York, NY : New York University Press, [1992] ©1992 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The American Social Experience ; 18 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The "Open Question" of Marriage -- CHAPTER 1. Dissolving Matrimonial Bonds: Divorce in the New Republic -- CHAPTER 2. Weaving the Bonds: Husbands' and Wives' Expectations of Marriage -- CHAPTER 3. "If We Forsook Prudence": Sexuality in Troubled Marriages -- CHAPTER 4. "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment": The Forms and Meaning of Spouse Abuse -- CHAPTER 5. Runaways: "Wilful and Malicious Desertion" -- CHAPTER 6. For a Maintenance: The Economics of Marital Discord -- Conclusion: Unraveling the Bonds -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "In Breaking The Bonds, Merril Smith establishes the ambitious goal of determining 'what kind of problems arose in troubled marriages' and of analyzing 'how men and women coped with marital discord.' . . . To accomplish this, Smith studied hundreds of divorce petitions, other legal documents, newspapers, almshouse dockets, and prescriptive literature. She concludes that, as in the present day, married couples fought and parted over sex, money, and abuse."-Pennsylvania History "A richly textured study. . . With an eye to cross-class and cross-race representation, Smith utilizes diverse sources, including memoirs and diaries, correspondence, probate records, newspaper advertisements, depositions and petitions for divorce, and various moral reform and social regulatory organization records. . . . A brave attempt to write a description of 'the development of the Puritan concept of spirtiual growth.' . . . Gracefully written. . . provides specific new insights into a too-neglected area of early republican domestic politics."-William and Mary Quarterly The late eighteenth century marked a period of changing expectations about marriage: companionship came to coexist as a norm alongside older patriarchal standards, men and women began to see their roles in more disparate ways, expectations about the satisfaction of marriage grew, and gender distinctions between husbands and wives became more complicated. Marital strife was an inevitable outcome of these changing expectations. The difficulties that rose, including abuse, a lack of sexual communication, and domestic violence (frequently brought on by alcholism) differ little from those with which couples struggle today. Breaking The Bonds is an imaginative and original account that brings to light a strongly communicative world in which neighbors knew of, dinscussed, and even came to the aid of those locked in unhappy marriages. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Divorce Pennsylvania History 18th century. Divorce Pennsylvania History 19th century. Marriage Pennsylvania History 18th century. Marriage Pennsylvania History 19th century. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). bisacsh Pennsylvania. This. account. brings. came. communicative. discussed. early. even. imaginative. knew. light. locked. marriages. neighbors. original. strongly. that. those. unhappy. which. world. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110716924 print 9780814779347 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814788950.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814788950 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814788950/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The "Open Question" of Marriage -- CHAPTER 1. Dissolving Matrimonial Bonds: Divorce in the New Republic -- CHAPTER 2. Weaving the Bonds: Husbands' and Wives' Expectations of Marriage -- CHAPTER 3. "If We Forsook Prudence": Sexuality in Troubled Marriages -- CHAPTER 4. "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment": The Forms and Meaning of Spouse Abuse -- CHAPTER 5. Runaways: "Wilful and Malicious Desertion" -- CHAPTER 6. For a Maintenance: The Economics of Marital Discord -- Conclusion: Unraveling the Bonds -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The "Open Question" of Marriage -- CHAPTER 1. Dissolving Matrimonial Bonds: Divorce in the New Republic -- CHAPTER 2. Weaving the Bonds: Husbands' and Wives' Expectations of Marriage -- CHAPTER 3. "If We Forsook Prudence": Sexuality in Troubled Marriages -- CHAPTER 4. "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment": The Forms and Meaning of Spouse Abuse -- CHAPTER 5. Runaways: "Wilful and Malicious Desertion" -- CHAPTER 6. For a Maintenance: The Economics of Marital Discord -- Conclusion: Unraveling the Bonds -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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