1. Rethinking the histories of violence; 2. Resisting violence; 3. Children and marital violence; 4. Beyond conjugal ties and spaces; 5. The origins of professional responses.
Exposing the 'hidden' history of marital violence between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century.
Elizabeth Foyster is Lecturer in History at Clare College, Cambridge. She previously published Manhood in Early Modern England: Honour, Sex and Marriage (1999).
'... Marital Violence is an excellent work, it would grace anybody's library especially if their specialist subject is among the listed ones of gender studies, feminism, social history and family history. I enjoyed reading it and it is worth reading for its own sake.' Open History 'As well as revising previous analyses of wife-beating Marital Violence also addresses some of its little-studied and disturbing features ... with flair, sympathy and intelligence, Foyster has moved the field far beyond current platitudes and given historians of interpersonal violence, family relationships and gender new avenues of research to explore.' Journal of Continuity and Change
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