Marriage Discourses: Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation

Table of Contents\n1. Idealized Romantic Love, Legal Issues, and Patriarchic Exploitation: An Introduction to Historical and Literary Marriage Discourses\nSection I: Marriage Discourses in Law and Politics\n2. Political Marriage in Antiquity\n3. Marriage Discourses in Conflict: Public and Private Order in Early Modern Spain\n4. Challenging Patriarchy: Marriage and the Reform of Marriage Law in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic\nSection II: Marriage Discourses and Social Criticism\n5. On the Discourse of the “New Sexual Morality” in the German Empire: Robert Michels’ Sexual Ethics between Women’s Movement, Social Democracy, and Sociology\n6. Marriage as Exploitation: Emma Goldman and the Anarchist Concept of Female Liberation\n7 To End the Yoke of Marriage: Mary Hunter Austin and the Struggle Against Patriarchal Norms\nSection III: Marriage Discourses in Literature\n8. Redefining Marriage in Interwar Britain: Internal Transformation and Personal Sacrifice in the Poetry of H.D.\n9. Scenes from a Marriage: The Age of Innocence as Discourse on the Transactional Value of Marriage\n10. “Marriages are just performances”: Staging Fashion, Comedy, and Feminism in Love, Loss and What I Wore\nContributors\nIndex