This book explores sexual violence against Victorian working women. The author examines how gendered notions inform both women's negotiation of relationships and men's aggression toward women.
This book explores sexual violence against Victorian working women. The author examines how gendered notions inform both women's negotiation of relati...
This provocative study explores the subordination of Victorian working women in the home, neighborhood, and workplace. Drawing on courtroom proceedings, D'Cruze reveals that women's interest in speaking out against violent crimes often coincide with the court's agenda to discipline the unruly behavior of working men. However, while women used local courts of vindicate their reputation before their neighbors, doing so often compromised their respectability in the eyes of the public.
This provocative study explores the subordination of Victorian working women in the home, neighborhood, and workplace. Drawing on courtroom proceeding...
This well-illustrated collection uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history to explore violence as a form of gendered embodiment across place and time, from the medieval world to the twenty-first century.
Uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history.
Considers the issues across time, from the classical world to the twenty-first century.
Covers a wide range of locations, including Africa, China, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia.
Academically and theoretically innovative.
This well-illustrated collection uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history to explore violence as a form of gendered embodiment acro...
This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. Murder uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation. The book incorporates a historical perspective which both provides some fascinating examples from the past and enables readers to gain a vision of what has changed and what has remained the same within those socio-cultural responses to murder. The book also embraces...
This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to i...
Shani D'Cruze and Louise Jackson introduce students to key debates and trends in the study of women and crime in Britain over the last three hundred years. While focusing specifically on women and crime, they reflect recent developments in gender studies and argue that men and women cannot be studied in isolation.
Shani D'Cruze and Louise Jackson introduce students to key debates and trends in the study of women and crime in Britain over the last three hundred y...
Exploring the diverse violence in Britain in the century between 1850 and 1950, this text includes sections on: everyday violence in the home; the use of violence within groups outside the home; how violence was regulated by the law and other agencies; and how violence was written about.
Exploring the diverse violence in Britain in the century between 1850 and 1950, this text includes sections on: everyday violence in the home; the use...
The diverse violence of modern Britain is hardly new. The Britain of 1850 to 1950 was similarly afflicted. The book is divided into four parts. 'Getting Hurt' which looks at everyday violence in the home (including a chapter on infanticide). 'Uses and Rejections' two chapters on the use of violence within groups of men and women outside the home (for example, violence within youth gangs, and male violence centred around pubs). 'Going Public' three chapters on how violence was regulated by law and the professional agencies which were set up to deal with it. 'Perceptions and...
The diverse violence of modern Britain is hardly new. The Britain of 1850 to 1950 was similarly afflicted. The book is divided into four parts.
