Citations:maritodespotism


 * 2005, Luke Croll, "François Villon: Gender, Psychoanalysis and Metaphor in the Middle Ages", thesis submitted to Durham University, page 128:
 * Maritodespotism is the domination of the husband over the wife, but in the Quinze Joyes, it is clearly the inverse – uxorodespotism, or the dominance of the wife.
 * 2012, Joan Hess, Deader Homes and Gardens: A Claire Malloy Mystery, St. Martin's Paperbacks (2013), ISBN 9781250019493, page 171:
 * In a perverse way, I was a little disappointed that I couldn't point my finger at Charles Finnelly and accuse him of murder most foul. Maritodespotism was not a crime in the eagle eyes of the law, and the statue of limitations for child abuse has long since expired.
 * 2017, Julie McCulloch Burton, Contagion to This World: A Parallel Universe Story (iUniverse, ISBN 9781532030079):
 * “Well,” Cecilia started in, “Of the flood of images on my mind now, I can see that the worst of humanity was carved out by the male of the species. [...] maritodespotism; committing a spouse to an insane asylum or house-of-God to get out of the marriage; [...] 'rape-correcting' a lesbian; [...].”
 * “Well,” Cecilia started in, “Of the flood of images on my mind now, I can see that the worst of humanity was carved out by the male of the species. [...] maritodespotism; committing a spouse to an insane asylum or house-of-God to get out of the marriage; [...] 'rape-correcting' a lesbian; [...].”