Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850

Hardback

Main Details

Title Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Katie Barclay
SeriesGender in History
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:232
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
ISBN/Barcode 9780719084904
ClassificationsDewey:306.8109411
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 31 August 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book explores how ideas around the nature of emotional intimacy, love, and friendship within marriage adapted to a modernising economy and society. Patriarchy continued to be the central model for marriage across the period and as a result, women found spaces to hold power within the family, but could not translate it to power beyond the household. Comparing the Scottish experience to that across Europe and North America, Barclay shows that throughout the eighteenth-century, far from being a side-note in European history, Scottish ideas about gender and marriage became culturally dominant. This book will be vital to those studying and teaching Scottish social history, and those interested in the history of marriage and gender. It will also appeal to feminists interested in the history of patriarchy. -- .

Author Biography

Katie Barclay is a Research Fellow in Irish Studies at Queen's University, Belfast

Reviews

Winner of the 2012 Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History and the 2012 Women's History Network (UK) Book Prize -- .