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Crime, gender, and social order in early modern England / Garthine Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Garthine, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
- Cambridge studies in early modern British history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Female offenders--Great Britain--History.
- Female offenders.
- Crime--Great Britain--History.
- Crime.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain--History.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Crime, Gender & Social Order in Early Modern England
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; PREFACE; NOTE ON QUOTATIONS AND DATES; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Introduction; 2 Men's non-lethal violence; 3 Voices of feminine violence; 4 Homicide, gender and justice; 5 Theft and related offences; 6 Authority, agency and law; 7 Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-12723-8
- 1-280-16080-2
- 0-511-11658-6
- 0-511-06573-6
- 0-511-20327-6
- 0-511-30635-0
- 0-511-49611-7
- 0-511-06786-0
- OCLC:
- 58836621
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