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 volume addresses important issues of women's status and their roles in the family, the family economy, and the economy at large.
- ISBN10 0866563113
- ISBN13 9780866563116
- Publish Date 1 January 1985
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 20 January 2022
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 196
- Language English