An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a unifying thread from the Middle Ages up through the twentieth-century. INDICE: Silence and Women's Authority .Property's History, Property's Literature .Silence, Language, Sexuality .Medieval Women Reject Marriage: Heloise and Marie de France .Sexual Purity as Property: Vie Seinte Audree, and .The Book of Margery Kempe .Property and Propriety in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England: Burney, Austen, Eliot .Virginia Woolf's Women, Trapped and Freed .Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russia: Women Writers Reject the Marriage Plot .Why Are Women Poor?
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11506-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 242
- Fecha Publicación: 27/04/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido