Marriage Discourses : : Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation / / edited by Jowan A. Mohammed, Frank Jacob.

• TeilnehmendeR: Mohammed, Jowan A.,; Jacob, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 260 pages)

Marriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of exploitation of women in many regards. Women were often considered commodities and marriage was far away from the romantic stereotypes people relate to it today. While marriages served as diplomatic tools or means of political legiti...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• 1. Idealized Romantic Love, Legal Issues, and Patriarchic Exploitation: An Introduction to Historical and Literary Marriage Discourses
• SECTION I: MARRIAGE DISCOURSES IN LAW AND POLITICS
• 2. Political Marriage in Antiquity
• 3. Marriage Discourses in Conflict: Public and Private Order in Early Modern Spain
• 4. Challenging Patriarchy: Marriage and the Reform of Marriage Law in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic
• SECTION II: MARRIAGE DISCOURSES AND SOCIAL CRITICISM
• 5. On the Discourse of the "New Sexual Morality" in the German Empire: Robert Michels' Sexual Ethics between Women's Movement, Social Democracy, and Sociology
• 6. Marriage as Exploitation: Emma Goldman and the Anarchist Concept of Female Liberation
• 7 To End the Yoke of Marriage: Mary Hunter Austin and the Struggle Against Patriarchal Norms
• SECTION III: MARRIAGE DISCOURSES IN LITERATURE
• 8. Redefining Marriage in Interwar Britain: Internal Transformation and Personal Sacrifice in the Poetry of H.D.
• 9. Scenes from a Marriage: The Age of Innocence as Discourse on the Transactional Value of Marriage
• 10. "Marriages are just performances": Staging Fashion, Comedy, and Feminism in Love, Loss and What I Wore
• Contributors
• Index.