Wife to Widow

Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

In Wife to Widow, award-winning historian Bettina Bradbury explores the little-studied phenomenon of the transition from wife to widowhood to offer new insights into the law, politics, demography, religion, and domestic life of early nineteenth-century Montreal.Bradbury's unique history spans the lives of two generations of Montreal women who married either before or after the Patriote rebellions of 1837-38 to reveal a picture of a city and its inhabitants across a period of profound change. Bradbury draws on a wealth of primary sources, weaving together biographies of individual women against a backdrop of the collective genealogies of over 500 , to show how women – Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish, wealthy and working-class – interacted with and shaped the city's culture, customs, and institutions, even as they laboured under the shifting conditions of patriarchy.A truly monumental study, Wife to Widow is an immensely readable, rigorous, and compelling examination of the significance of marriage and widowhood at a key moment in history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-06-15
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:880 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:520
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774819510
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Canadian Political History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2012 (Canada)

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Bettina Bradbury is an award-winning historian who teaches history and women's studies at York University.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart 1: Marriage, Identity, and the Law1 Marriage Metropole: Mobility and Marriage in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal2 Companionate Patriarchies: Money Matters and Marriage3 Marriage Trajectories: Class, Choices, and Chance4 "Dower This Barbarous Law": Debating Marriage and Widows' Rights5 Imagining Widowhood and Death: Marriage Contracts, Wills, and Funeral ProvisionsPart 2: Individual Itineraries of Widowhood6 Diverse Demographies: Death, Widowhood, and Remarriage7 In the Shadow of Their Husbands: The First Days of Widowhood8 "Within a Year and a Day": The First Year of Widowhood9 Widows' Votes: Marguerite Paris, Émilie Tavernier, Sarah Harrison, and the Montreal By-Elections of 183210 Widow to Mother Superior: Émilie Tavernier Gamelin and Catholic Institution Building11 Patchworks of the Possible: Widows' Wealth, Work, and Children12 Final Years, Final Wishes: Care, Connections, Old Age and DeathConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex