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Gender and crime in modern Europe / [edited by] Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women's and gender history.
- Women's and gender history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--Europe--Sex differences.
- Crime.
- Crime--Europe--History.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--Europe--History.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : UCL Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in modern Europe.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Why gender and crime? Aspects of an international debate; Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England; The trouble with boys: gender and the ~invention~ of the juvenile offender in early nineteenth-century Britain; Women and crime in Imperial Russia, 1834 1913: representing realities; Crime against marriage? Wife-beating, the law and divorce in nineteenth-century Hamburg; Workplace appropriation and the gendering of factory ~law~: West Yorkshire, 1840 80
- Consuming desires: prostitutes and ~customers~ at the margins of crime and perversion in France and Britain, c. 1836 85Male crime in nineteenth-century Germany: duelling; Dutch difference? The prosecution of unlicensed midwives in the late nineteenth-century Netherlands; ~Stories more terrifying than the truth itself~: narratives of female criminality in fin de sicle Paris; The child's word in court: cases of sexual abuse in London, 1870 1914; Women's crimes, state crimes: abortion in Nazi Germany; Gender norms in the Sicilian Mafia, 1945 86; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-36107-X
- 1-135-36108-8
- 1-280-33452-5
- 0-203-01699-8
- 0-203-17047-4
- 9780203016992
- OCLC:
- 56994577
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