Gender and crime in modern Europe / [edited by] Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne.
This volume explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in modern Europe.
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| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Women's and gender history.
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Table of Contents:
- Why gender and crime? : aspects of an international debate / Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne
- Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England / Peter King
- The trouble with boys : gender and the "invention" of the juvenile offender in early nineteenth-century Britain / Heather Shore
- Women and crime in Imperial Russia, 1834-1913 : representing realities / Stephen P. Frank
- Crime against marriage? : wife-beating, the law and divorce in nineteenth-century Hamburg / Lynn Abrams
- Workplace appropriation and the gendering of factory "law" : West Yorkshire, 1840-80 / Barry Godfrey
- Consuming desires : prostitutes and "customers" at the margins of crime and perversion in France and Britain, c. 1836-85 / Bertrand Taithe
- Male crime in nineteenth-century Germany : duelling / Ute Frevert
- Dutch difference? : the prosecution of unlicensed midwives in the late nineteenth-century Netherlands / Willem de Blécourt
- "Stories more terrifying than the truth itself" : narratives of female criminality in fin de siècle Paris / Ann-Louise Shapiro
- The child's word in court : cases of sexual abuse in London, 1870-1914 / Louise Jackson
- Women's crimes, state crimes : abortion in Nazi Germany / Gabriele Czarnowski
- Gender norms in the Sicilian Mafia, 1945-86 / Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta.