Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Approaches from the History of Emotion

ISBN-13: 9780367424558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 238 str.

Katie Barclay; Jeffrey Meek; Andrea Thomson

Opis

This book asks how the new history of emotion has transformed our understanding of marriage across time and space. It goes beyond a history of personal feeling to the ways that emotions in marriage have social, political and economic implications.

Spis treści

1. Marriage and Emotion in Historical Context  2. Affection and Passion in Early Modern Spanish Separations  3. "He Asked Her Why She Was Crying": Young People’s Intimate Relationships, Emotions, and the Making of Marriage in Early Modern France  4. Illicit Relations in a Multiethnic City: Emotions, Fidelity, and Economic Obligations in Colonial Mexico  5. Mobile Emotions: Bigamy and Community in Scotland, 1660-1830  6. "Companions in Labor": Same-Sex Marriage and the Romantic Ideal in the Early United States  7. "Bigamy", "Marriage Fraud" and Colonial Patriarchy in Kayes, French Sudan (1905-1925)  8. From Foreign Bride to "Korean" Mother: Managing Feelings in Modern, South Korean Marriages  9. "The Best of Both Worlds’?: Young Women, Family and Marriage in 1970s Scotland  10. "He Isn’t Affectionate at All": African-American Wives in the 1940s and the Problem of "Cool"  11. Trust, Authenticity and Bigamy in Twentieth-Century England  12. "It Seemed the Right Thing to Do!": Mixed-Orientation Marriages and Emotions in Post-War Scotland  13. Marriage in India: A Web of Intimacies  14. To Have and to Hold?: The Relationality of Emotions and Couples’ Relationships in Twenty-First-Century Britain