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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Autore principale: Wiener, Martin J.
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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