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In Bed with the Victorians
Vicky Holmes
其他書名
The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage
出版Springer, 2017-10-16
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Social HistorySocial Science / Gender StudiesHistory / Europe / GeneralHistory / General
ISBN33196039069783319603902
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QFs6DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using coroners’ inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital, quasi-marital, and post-marital beds to reveal the material, domestic, and emotional experience of working-class marriage during everyday life and at times of crisis. Drawing on the recent approach of utilising domestic objects to explore interpersonal relationships, the marital bed not only provides a rereading of the experiences of the working-class wife but also brings the much maligned or simply overlooked working-class husband into the picture. Moreover, it also extends our understanding of the various marriage-like arrangements existing throughout this class. Moving through the marital life-cycle, this book provides a greater understanding of marriages from the outset, during childbirth, at times of strife and marital breakdown, and upon the death of a spouse.