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Wife to Widow : Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (521 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774819534
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wife to WidowDDC classification:
  • 306.872
LOC classification:
  • HQ1453 -- .B73 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Marriage, Identity, and the Law -- 1: Marriage Metropole -- 2: Companionate Patriarchies -- 3: Marriage Trajectories -- 4: "Dower This Barbarous Law" -- 5: Imagining Widowhood and Death -- Part 2: Individual Itineraries of  Widowhood -- 6: Diverse Demographies -- 7: In the Shadow of  Their Husbands -- 8: "Within a Year and a Day" -- 9: Widows'  Votes -- 10: Widow to Mother Superior -- 11: Patchworks of the Possible -- 12: Final Years, Final Wishes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The diversity of women's lives as wives then as widows negotiating the law, patriarchy, family relationships, and the economy in 19th-century Montreal come alive in this first major study of widows in Canada.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Marriage, Identity, and the Law -- 1: Marriage Metropole -- 2: Companionate Patriarchies -- 3: Marriage Trajectories -- 4: "Dower This Barbarous Law" -- 5: Imagining Widowhood and Death -- Part 2: Individual Itineraries of  Widowhood -- 6: Diverse Demographies -- 7: In the Shadow of  Their Husbands -- 8: "Within a Year and a Day" -- 9: Widows'  Votes -- 10: Widow to Mother Superior -- 11: Patchworks of the Possible -- 12: Final Years, Final Wishes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The diversity of women's lives as wives then as widows negotiating the law, patriarchy, family relationships, and the economy in 19th-century Montreal come alive in this first major study of widows in Canada.

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