ISBN:
9781350214422
,
9781350193963
,
9781350193956
,
9781350194168
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
History of Emotions
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.845
Keywords:
Marriage History 20th century
;
Emigration and immigration History 20th century
;
Women Social conditions
;
Emotions Social aspects
;
Social & cultural history
;
Electronic books
;
Argentina Social conditions 20th century
Abstract:
"Revealing the lives of migrant couples and transnational households, this book explores the dark side of the history of migration in Argentina during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using court records, censuses, personal correspondence and a series of case studies, María Bjerg offers a portrayal of the emotional dynamics of transnational marital bonds and intimate relationships stretched across continents. Using microhistories and case studies, this book shows how migration affected marital bonds with loneliness, betrayal, fear and frustration. Focusing primarily on the emotional lives of Italian and Spanish migrants, this book explores bigamy, infidelity, adultery, domestic violence and murder within official and unofficial unions. It reveals the complexities of obligation, financial hardship, sacrifice and distance that came with migration, and explores how shame, jealousy, vengeance and disobedience led to the breaking of marital ties. Against a backdrop of changing cultural contexts Bjerg examines the emotional languages and practices used by adulterous women against their offended husbands, to justify domestic violence and as a defence against homicide. Demonstrating how migration was a powerful catalyst of change in emotional lives and in evolving social standards, Broken Ties in Past Argentina reveals intimate and disordered lives at a time when female obedience and male honour were not only paramount, but exacerbated by distance and displacement."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Land of prosperity -- Chapter 2 Promise, wait, and betrayal -- Chapter 3 Breaking sacred vows -- Chapter 4 The anatomy of everyday hatred -- Chapter 5 Jealousy: a dangerous passion -- Chapter 6 Killing for love -- Conclusion.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350214422
URL:
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