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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818260503321

Titolo

Gender and crime in modern Europe / / [edited by] Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : UCL Press, c1999

ISBN

1-135-36107-X

1-135-36108-8

1-280-33452-5

0-203-01699-8

0-203-17047-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Women's and gender history

Altri autori (Persone)

ArnotMargaret L

UsborneCornelie <1942->

Disciplina

364.3/094

Soggetti

Crime - Europe - Sex differences

Crime - Europe - History

Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration - Europe - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Why gender and crime? Aspects of an international debate; Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England; The trouble with boys: gender and the ~invention~ of the juvenile offender in early nineteenth-century Britain; Women and crime in Imperial Russia, 1834  1913: representing realities; Crime against marriage? Wife-beating, the law and divorce in nineteenth-century Hamburg; Workplace appropriation and the gendering of factory ~law~: West Yorkshire, 1840  80

Consuming desires: prostitutes and ~customers~ at the margins of crime and perversion in France and Britain, c. 1836  85Male crime in nineteenth-century Germany: duelling; Dutch difference? The prosecution of unlicensed midwives in the late nineteenth-century Netherlands; ~Stories more terrifying than the truth itself~: narratives of female criminality in fin de sicle Paris; The child's word in court: cases of sexual abuse in London, 1870  1914; Women's crimes, state



crimes: abortion in Nazi Germany; Gender norms in the Sicilian Mafia, 1945  86; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in modern Europe.