Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family by Margaret J. M. Ezell

Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family

Margaret J. M. Ezell

288 pages • first pub 1987 (view editions)

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Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her innovative revisionist study Margaret Ezell examines this modern model of domestic patriarchalism in s...

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