{"product_id":"domestic-secrets-maria-gren-9781469614533","title":"Domestic Secrets: Women and Property in Sweden, 1600-1857","description":"Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights, but a more complex tale of unintended consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA public sphere of influence--including the wife's family and the local community--held sway over spousal property rights throughout most of the seventeenth century, Agren argues. Around 1700, a campaign to codify spousal property rights as an \u003ci\u003earcanum domesticum\u003c\/i\u003e, or domestic secret, aimed to increase efficiency in legal decision making. New regulatory changes indeed reduced familial interference, but they also made families less likely to give land to women. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe advent of the print medium ushered property issues back into the public sphere, this time on a national scale, Agren explains. Mass politicization increased sympathy for women, and public debate popularized more progressive ideas about the economic contributions of women to marriage, leading to mid-nineteenth-century legal reforms that were more favorable to women. Agren's work enhances our understanding of how societies have conceived of women's contributions to the fundamental institutions of marriage and the family, using as an example a country with far-reaching influence during and after the Enlightenment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria ﾅgren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469614537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469614533\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.68d","brand":"Maria ﾅgren","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985666507007,"sku":"9781469614533","price":47.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce0b2651-b2eb-430d-a42d-7589748c65db.jpg?v=1683278854","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/domestic-secrets-maria-gren-9781469614533","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}