Men of blood : violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England /
An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressiv...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Online-Zugang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=152256 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Violence and law, gender and law.
- When men killed men.
- Sexual violence.
- Homicidal women and homicidal men: a growing contrast.
- Bad wives: drunkenness and other provocations.
- Bad wives II: adultery and the unwritten law.
- Establishing intention: probing the mind of a wife killer.
- Conclusion: The new "reasonable man" and twentieth-century Britain.