Everyday violence in Britain, 1850-1950 : gender and class / / edited by Shani D'Cruze |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
Disciplina |
303.6/0941/09034
303.6094109034 |
Altri autori (Persone) | D'CruzeShani |
Collana | Women And Men In History |
Soggetto topico |
Violence - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Violence - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-317-87556-7
0-582-41908-5 1-315-83800-1 1-317-87557-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction: Unguarded passions: violence, history and the everyday; PART I THE USES OF VIOLENCE; 1. Domesticity and the problem of wifebeating in nineteenthcentury Britain: working-class culture, law and politics; 2. 'Men behaving badly'?: masculinity and the uses of violence, 1850-1900; 3. Understanding women committing newborn child murder in Victorian England; 4. Youth gangs, gender and violence, 1870-1900; PART II THE REGULATION OF VIOLENCE
5. 'Ingenuities of the female mind': legal and public perceptions of sexual violence in Victorian England, 1850-18906. 'She resisted with all her might': sexual violence against women in late nineteenth-century Manchester and the local press; 7. Women professionals and the regulation of violence in interwar Britain; 8. Exposing 'the inner life': the Women's Co-operative Guild's attitude to 'cruelty'; PART III THE REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE; 9. 'Only when drunk': the stereotyping of violence in England, c. 1850-1900; 10. Keeping ourselves to ourselves: violence in the Edwardian suburb 11. The trial of Madame Fahmy: Orientalism, violence, sexual perversity and the fear of miscegenation12. 'The irons of their fetters have eaten into their souls': nineteenth-century feminist strategies to get our bodies onto the political agenda; Selected Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786778703321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Everyday violence in Britain, 1850-1950 : gender and class / / edited by Shani D'Cruze |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
Disciplina |
303.6/0941/09034
303.6094109034 |
Altri autori (Persone) | D'CruzeShani |
Collana | Women And Men In History |
Soggetto topico |
Violence - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Violence - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-317-87556-7
0-582-41908-5 1-315-83800-1 1-317-87557-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction: Unguarded passions: violence, history and the everyday; PART I THE USES OF VIOLENCE; 1. Domesticity and the problem of wifebeating in nineteenthcentury Britain: working-class culture, law and politics; 2. 'Men behaving badly'?: masculinity and the uses of violence, 1850-1900; 3. Understanding women committing newborn child murder in Victorian England; 4. Youth gangs, gender and violence, 1870-1900; PART II THE REGULATION OF VIOLENCE
5. 'Ingenuities of the female mind': legal and public perceptions of sexual violence in Victorian England, 1850-18906. 'She resisted with all her might': sexual violence against women in late nineteenth-century Manchester and the local press; 7. Women professionals and the regulation of violence in interwar Britain; 8. Exposing 'the inner life': the Women's Co-operative Guild's attitude to 'cruelty'; PART III THE REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE; 9. 'Only when drunk': the stereotyping of violence in England, c. 1850-1900; 10. Keeping ourselves to ourselves: violence in the Edwardian suburb 11. The trial of Madame Fahmy: Orientalism, violence, sexual perversity and the fear of miscegenation12. 'The irons of their fetters have eaten into their souls': nineteenth-century feminist strategies to get our bodies onto the political agenda; Selected Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820321803321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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