Amazons and Victims: Resisting Wife-Abuse in Working-Class Montréal, 1869-1879

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Author/collaborator
Title
Amazons and Victims: Resisting Wife-Abuse in Working-Class Montréal, 1869-1879
Abstract
An analysis of wife-battering as reported in the Montreal Star. The author argues that resistance to wife-abuse in the second-half of the nineteenth century was linked to the temperance movement. The movement made wife-battering into a public issue by linking it to its anti-drinking campaign. The author points out that the Montreal Star and its owner-editor, Hugh Graham (1848-1938), were outspoken opponents of alcohol.
Publication
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada
Volume
New Series Vol. 2
Pages
131-148
Date
1991
Language
en
URL
Citation
Harvey, Kathryn. “Amazons and Victims: Resisting Wife-Abuse in Working-Class Montréal, 1869-1879.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada New Series Vol. 2 (1991): 131–148. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/jcha/1991-v2-n1-jcha998/031031ar.pdf.
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