Frost Living in sin

Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-141-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Gender in History

Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in Victorian England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. The work also analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the wider comunities to extra-legal partnerships.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frost, Ginger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Cohabitation, illegitimacy, and the law in England, 1750-1914
2. Violence and cohabitation in the courts
3. Affinity and consanguinity
4. Bigamy and cohabitation
5. Adulterous cohabitation
6. The ‘other Victorians’: the demimonde and the very poor
7. Cross-class cohabitation
8. Radical couples, 1790-1850
9. Radical couples, 1850-1914
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Frost Ginger:
Ginger S. Frost is Professor of History at Samford University, Birmingham, AlabamaGinger S. Frost is Professor of History at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama