Gender and policing in early modern England / Jonah Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Jonah, 1992- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law enforcement--England--History--17th century.

Law enforcement.

Law enforcement--England--History--18th century.

Constables--England--History--17th century.

Constables.

Constables--England--History--18th century.

Sex role--England--History--17th century.

Sex role.

Sex role--England--History--18th century.

Social conditions.

England--Social conditions--17th century.

England.

England--Social conditions--18th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 253 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"This book traces the emergence of a distinctive kind of gendered policing out of older structures of law enforcement and local government, a process which took place in fits and starts over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It does not provide a comprehensive account of the ways in which early modern law enforcement was shaped by gender. The focus is narrower but it is set in a wide analytical frame, drawing inspiration from feminist scholarship on the shifting relationship between gender and the state, especially Carole Pateman's idea of a transition from paternal to fraternal forms of male power"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Office and household

The law of office

Office and manhood

Arrests

Searches.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Miller, Jonah, 1992- Gender and policing in early modern England

ISBN:

9781009305143

100930514X

OCLC:

1355465547

Publisher Number:

90101139218