How Long to Read A Woman's Kingdom

How Long Does it Take to Read A Woman's Kingdom?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 3 minutes to read A Woman's Kingdom by Michelle Lamarche Marrese

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjoyed the right to alienate and manage their fortunes beginning in 1753. Marrese traces the extension of noblewomen's right to property and places this story in the broader context of the evolution of private property in Russia before the Great Reforms of the 1860s. Historians have often dismissed women's property rights as meaningless. In the patriarchal society of Imperial Russia, a married woman could neither work nor travel without her husband's permission, and divorce was all but unattainable. Yet, through a detailed analysis of women's property rights from the Petrine era through the abolition of serfdom in 1861, Marrese demonstrates the significance of noblewomen's proprietary power. She concludes that Russian noblewomen were unique not only for the range of property rights available to them, but also for the active exercise of their legal prerogatives. A remarkably broad source base provides a solid foundation for Marrese's conclusions. These sources comprise more than eight thousand transactions from notarial records documenting a variety of property transfers, property disputes brought to the Senate, noble family papers, and a vast memoir literature. A Woman's Kingdom stands as a masterful challenge to the existing, androcentric view of noble society in Russia before Emancipation.

How long is A Woman's Kingdom?

A Woman's Kingdom by Michelle Lamarche Marrese is 296 pages long, and a total of 75,776 words.

This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Woman's Kingdom Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 54 minutes to read A Woman's Kingdom aloud.

What Reading Level is A Woman's Kingdom?

A Woman's Kingdom is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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