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An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women´s marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a unifying thread from the Middle Ages up through the twentieth-century.

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Silence and Women´s Authority Property´s History, Property´s Literature Silence, Language, Sexuality Medieval Women Reject Marriage: Heloise and Marie de France Sexual Purity as Property: Vie Seinte Audree, and The Book of Margery Kempe Property and Propriety in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England: Burney, Austen, Eliot Virginia Woolf´s Women, Trapped and Freed Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russia: Women Writers Reject the Marriage Plot Why Are Women Poor?

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Sally A. Livingston is Assistant Professor of Humanities-Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA.

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