The diverse violence of modern Britain is hardly new. The Britain of 1850 to 1950 was similarly afflicted. The book is divided into four parts. 'Getting Hurt' which looks at everyday violence in the home (including a chapter on infanticide). 'Uses and Rejections' two chapters on the use of violence within groups of men and women outside the home (for example, violence within youth gangs, and male violence centred around pubs). 'Going Public' three chapters on how violence was regulated by law and the professional agencies which were set up to deal with it. 'Perceptions and Representations' this final section looks at how violence was written about, using both fiction and non-fiction sources. Throughout the book the recurring themes of gender, class, continuity and change, public/private, and experience, discourses and representations are highlighted.

Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950: Gender and Class (Women and Men in History)

History

D'Cruze, Shani

Europe

Routledge

This book explores sexual violence against Victorian working women. The author examines how gendered notions inform both women's negotiation of relationships and men's aggression toward women.

Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence, and Victorian Working Women

Northern Illinois University Press

This provocative study explores the subordination of Victorian working women in the home, neighborhood, and workplace. Drawing on courtroom proceedings, D'Cruze reveals that women's interest in speaking out against violent crimes often coincide with the court's agenda to discipline the unruly behavior of working men. However, while women used local courts of vindicate their reputation before their neighbors, doing so often compromised their respectability in the eyes of the public.

Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence, and Victorian Working Women (Cornell Studies in Political Economy (Paperback))

The diverse violence of modern Britain is hardly new. The Britain of 1850 to 1950 was similarly afflicted. The book is divided into four parts. &nbsp; 'Getting Hurt' which looks at everyday violence in the home (including a chapter on infanticide). &nbsp; 'Uses and Rejections' two chapters on the use of violence within groups of men and women outside the home (for example, violence within youth gangs, and male violence centred around pubs). &nbsp; 'Going Public' three chapters on how violence was regulated by law and the professional agencies which were set up to deal with it. &nbsp; 'Perceptions and Representations' this final section looks at how violence was written about, using both fiction and non-fiction sources. &nbsp; Throughout the book the recurring themes of gender, class, continuity and change, public/private, and experience, discourses and representations are highlighted.

Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950: Gender and Class (Women And Men In History)

Crewe, Ivor

Shani D'Cruze and Louise A. Jackson provide students with a lively overview of women's relationship to the criminal justice system in England, exploring key debates in the regulation of 'respectable' and 'deviant' femininities over the last four centuries. Major issues include: • attitudes towards murder and infanticide * prostitution • the decline of witchcraft belief * sexual violence • the 'girl delinquent' * theft and fraud The volume also examines women's participation in illegal forms of protest and political activism, their experience of penal regimes as well as strategies of resistance, and their involvement in occupations associated with criminal justice itself. Assuming that men and women cannot be studied in isolation, D'Cruze and Jackson make reference to recent studies of masculinity and comment on the ways in which relations between men and women have been understood and negotiated across time. Featuring examples drawn from a rich range of sources such as court records, autobiographies, literature and film, this is an ideal introduction to an increasingly popular area of study.

Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660 (Gender and History, 33)

Jackson, Louise

Red Globe Press

Shani D'Cruze and Louise Jackson introduce students to key debates and trends in the study of women and crime in Britain over the last three hundred years. While focusing specifically on women and crime, they reflect recent developments in gender studies and argue that men and women cannot be studied in isolation.

Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660 (Gender and History, 14)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Eighteenth-century Colchester in Essex is historically interesting because it was de-industrialising in an era of accelerating industrial growth, was near the cultural and social magnet of the giant metropolis yet was itself substantial enough to have its own cultural and political identity. Colchester People is not only a mine of information for those researching particular individuals and families, it builds up a picture of social connectedness -- between families, individuals, neighbourhoods and other kinds of networks and therefore has something to say about English provincial urban society in the age of early modernity. This biographical dictionary is compiled from the researches of John Bensusan Butt. His collection of primary source material identifies over 1,000 individuals of the Colchester middling sort and town gentry. This alphabetical volume covers those with surnames from A to L. Volume 2 (forthcoming) will deal with surnames M-Y.

Colchester People, Vol. 1 (pbk)

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Colchester People, Volume 2

Murder: Social and historical approaches to understanding murder and murderers (Crime and Society Series)

This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation. It incorporates a historical perspective which both provides some fascinating examples from the past and enables readers to gain a vision of what has changed and what has remained the same within those socio-cultural responses to murder. The book also embraces questions of race and gender, in particular cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity on the one hand, and the social processes of 'forgetting and remembering' in the context of particular crimes on the other. Particular murders analysed included those of Myra Hindley, Harold Shipman and the Bulger murder.

Murder (Crime and Society Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation. It incorporates a historical perspective which both provides some fascinating examples from the past and enables readers to gain a vision of what has changed and what has remained the same within those socio-cultural responses to murder.  The book also embraces questions of race and gender, in particular cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity on the one hand, and the social processes of 'forgetting and remembering' in the context of particular crimes on the other. Particular murders analysed included those of Myra Hindley, Harold Shipman and the Bulger murder.

Pegg, Samantha

Walklate,Sandra

Willan

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