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Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850

Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850

Barclay, Katie

Paperback

Series: Gender in History

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0719095557
ISBN13: 9780719095559
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Mar 31 2014
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Winner of the 2012 Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History and the 2012 Women's History Network (UK) Book Prize

Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book explores how ideas around the nature of emotional intimacy, love and friendship within marriage adapted to a modernising economy and society. Patriarchy continued to be the central model for marriage across the period and as a result, women found spaces to hold power within the family, but could not translate it to power beyond the household. Comparing the Scottish experience to that across Europe and North America, Barclay shows that throughout the eighteenth century, far from being a side-note in European history, Scottish ideas about gender and marriage became culturally dominant.

Now available in paperback, this book will be vital to those studying and teaching Scottish social history, and those interested in the history of marriage and gender. It will also appeal to feminists interested in the history of patriarchy.

'An important and original study'

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