The Marriage Bargain
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This eye-opening book covers over a thousand years of Western history and exposes the controls that noble, bourgeois, and propertied peasant families exerted over daughters (and sons) to ensure the continuity of existing social relations. It details the broader economic and social structures within which young women married and the degree to which the institution of the dowry--the marriage bargain--structured courtship and marriage. This provocative...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0918393167
ISBN13:9780918393166
Release Date:May 1985
Publisher:Routledge
Length:196 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.6" x 8.6"
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