9780801858772-0801858771-Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal (Gender Relations in the American Experience)

Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal (Gender Relations in the American Experience)

ISBN-13: 9780801858772
ISBN-10: 0801858771
Author: Professor Anya Jabour
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover 232 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780801858772
ISBN-10: 0801858771
Author: Professor Anya Jabour
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover 232 pages

Summary

Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal (Gender Relations in the American Experience) (ISBN-13: 9780801858772 and ISBN-10: 0801858771), written by authors Professor Anya Jabour, was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 1998. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other United States History (Social Sciences, Women's Studies, Marriage & Family, Sociology, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal (Gender Relations in the American Experience) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.31.

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William Wirt practiced law in Virginia and Maryland in the early national period and served as attorney general under James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. Elizabeth Wirt managed the household and cared for the Wirts' large family during her husband's frequent work-related absences. For more than three decades, the couple struggled to reconcile different daily pursuits with a commitment to marriage as a partnership of equals. In Marriage in the Early Republic, Anya Jabour provides detailed analysis of a marital relationship so thoroughly documented that it illuminates gender relations in nineteenth-century America.

On one level, this is a story--a rich narrative full of the joys, sorrows, tensions, and the give-and-take of an American marriage. But because changing gender roles and expectations in this period caused discordance and forced adjustments, Jabour also provides a microhistorical analysis of a broad pattern. Placing the Wirts' marriage in a larger context, she shows how problematic marriage--and the balancing of domestic and childcare responsibilities--could be as well-to-do Americans developed their own cultural and social expectations. By examining patterns of love and marriage in a formative era, Marriage in the Early Republic offers insights into romance and relationships in our own time as well.

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