'A natural foundation in equity': Marriage and Divorce in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Scotland

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Leneman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
Natural Foundation

“Whether They Promised Each Other Some Thing Is Difficult to Work Out”: The Complicated History of Marriage in Uganda

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhiannon Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
History Of Marriage

Abstract:Marriage cases discussed by Catholic missionaries in Uganda at the turn of the twentieth century showcase considerable diversity in relationships between women and men. While these cases reflect the turbulence of the late nineteenth century, the history of marriage and divorce in the region since around 700 CE demonstrates that diversity in marital arrangements was a long-standing phenomenon. This article sets out the history of aspects of marriage and divorce in Buganda, Bugwere, Busoga, and Bushana, and their ancestral communities to show how women and men conceptualized their domestic relationships and adapted them as they dealt with political and social change.

scholarly journals Matrimonial Bonds: Slavery and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century America

1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth B. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
Divorce Laws ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Woman's Rights

As early as 1848, in the first public meeting on woman's rights, feminists raised the touchy issues of women's marital subjugation and divorce. They complained that the laws of marriage and divorce were framed for the benefit of men and to entrap women within the oppressive institution of marriage. Another controversial claim made at Seneca Falls—that to the ballot—went on to become the great organizing principle for women's campaigns for legal and political reform. But despite the bold beginning, divorce remained a complex and divisive issue for feminists throughout the century. Although legislatures in most states in the mid-nineteenth century were systematically liberalizing divorce laws, they could not lift the social stigma attached to it. Fearful of being branded as anti-marriage or anti-family, or believing in the permanency of marriage, many feminists spoke of divorce reluctantly, and never used their formidable organizing skills to launch a full-scale assault on laws restricting the dissolution of marriage.

Money, Marriage, and Madness

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim E. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Marital Violence ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
The Impact

Money, Marriage, and Madness is a story of the medical profession, a woman’s wealth and the gendered property laws in which she operated, marital violence, marriage and divorce, institutional incarceration, and an alleged bank robbery. Dr. Anna B. Miesse Ott lived in a legal context governing money, marriage, and madness that nearly all nineteenth-century women shared. She benefited from wealth, professional status as a physician, and whiteness, but they did not protect her from the vulnerabilities generated by sexism and ableism. After an 1856 marriage and divorce, Ott served for nearly twenty years as a physician in Madison, Wisconsin and garnered additional wealth. In 1873, her husband and local physicians testified to her insanity, as well as her legal incompetency, and Ott entered the gates of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane where she remained until her 1893 death. Her decades of institutionalization reveal daily life in a late nineteenth-century asylum and the permeability of its walls. Tracing the stories told of her after her death enables analyses of the impact of the diagnosis of mania and institutionalization on our memory of her. In addition, this book explores historical methods, ethics, and dilemmas confronted when historical sources are limited and come not from the subject but from those with greater power.

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