Section One: Working-Class Marriage, 1. The Targets of `Rough Music': Respectability and Domestic Violence, 2. `Rough Usage', Section Two: Middle-Class Marriage, 3. Companionate Marriage and the Challenge to Patriarchy, 4. Cruelty and Divorce, 5. The Adaptation of Patriarchy in Late-Victorian Marriage Conclusion
A. James Hammerton
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