Barbara Alpern EngelBreaking the Ties That Bound
The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia
Barbara Alpern Engel is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Women in Russia: 1700-2000, Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914, and Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia and coeditor of A Revolution of Their Own: Russian Women Remember Their Lives in the Twentieth Century, Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation, and Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar.
Introduction: Marriage and Its Discontents
1 The Ties That Bound
2 Making Marriage: Romantic Ideals and Female Rhetoric
3 Money Matters
4 Disciplining Laboring Husbands
5 Earning My Own Crust of Bread
6 Cultivating Domesticity
7 The Right to Love
8 The Best Interests of the Child
Conclusion: The Politics of Marital Strife
Appendix A. Archival Sources
Appendix B. Major Cases Used in the Book
Index
