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- Title
"Throwing the Wedding-Shoe": Foundational Violence, Unhappy Couples, and Murderous Women.
- Authors
TROMP, MARLENE
- Abstract
The article discusses the culture of violence associated with relationships between men and women in Victorian England, focusing on the threat of homicidal violence by women to unhappy marriages. Other topics include the social implications of divorce for women, how the threat of violence by women influenced legislation on violence against women, and the psychology of passivity and violence in Victorian women.
- Subjects
DOMESTIC violence; VIOLENT women; DIVORCE &; society; DIVORCE; VIOLENCE against women laws; PSYCHOLOGY of women; VICTORIAN Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2013, Vol 39, Issue 2, p39
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2013.0042