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Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Nineteenth-Century English Culture Eileen Cleere
Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Nineteenth-Century English Culture
Eileen Cleere
Explores19th-century in order to argue that the "nuclear" 19th-century family was, in fact, far more fractured and contradictory than 20th-century critics have assumed. The book argues that representations of the "avunculate" mark a preoccupation with the increasingly theorized directives of a new political economy.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 19, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804750257 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 21 mm · 480 g |