7 To End the Yoke of Marriage: Mary Hunter Austin and the Struggle Against Patriarchal Norms

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. 1. Idealized Romantic Love, Legal Issues, and Patriarchic Exploitation: An Introduction to Historical and Literary Marriage Discourses 1
4. Section I: Marriage Discourses in Law and Politics
5. 2. Political Marriage in Antiquity 25
6. 3. Marriage Discourses in Conflict: Public and Private Order in Early Modern Spain 51
7. 4. Challenging Patriarchy: Marriage and the Reform of Marriage Law in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic 73
8. Section II: Marriage Discourses and Social Criticism
9. 5. On the Discourse of the “New Sexual Morality” in the German Empire: Robert Michels’ Sexual Ethics between Women’s Movement, Social Democracy, and Sociology 105
10. 6. Marriage as Exploitation: Emma Goldman and the Anarchist Concept of Female Liberation 133
11. 7 To End the Yoke of Marriage: Mary Hunter Austin and the Struggle Against Patriarchal Norms 159
12. Section III: Marriage Discourses in Literature
13. 8. Redefining Marriage in Interwar Britain: Internal Transformation and Personal Sacrifice in the Poetry of H.D. 187
14. 9. Scenes from a Marriage: The Age of Innocence as Discourse on the Transactional Value of Marriage 207
15. 10. “Marriages are just performances”: Staging Fashion, Comedy, and Feminism in Love, Loss and What I Wore 231
16. Contributors 255
17. Index 257