Author : Jennifer Kermode
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807845004
Women, Crime, and the Courts in Early Modern England
Author : Jennifer Kermode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9781857281408
Author : Garthine Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1139435116
An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.
Author : Jeannette Kamp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9004388443
This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there were also large regional differences. Women’s crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to those of other cities. Informal control within the household played a significant role and influenced the prosecution patterns of authorities. This impacted men and women differently, and created clear distinctions within the system between settled locals and unsettled migrants.
Author : Sandy Bardsley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0812239369
"The unique contribution of Venomous Tongues lies in its interdisciplinary approach and the way it situates scolding within a broader range of issues specific to the legal and social history of the period."—L. R. Poos, The Catholic University of America
Author : Jacqueline Eales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1135367728
This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern period. It emcompasses a guide to the historiography, an assessment of the major debates, and information about the varied sources available for women's history in this period. Arranged around familiar themes - the family, work, religion, education - the book presents a comprehensive survey of the social, economic and political position of women in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Author : Margaret W. Ferguson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802087577
Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.
Author : Manon van der Heijden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1108477712
Places female criminality within its everyday context, bringing together the most current research on crime and gender.
Author : Sanne Muurling
Publisher : Crime and City in History
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2020-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004440586
"Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women's scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women's passivity, arguing that women's crimes were far too common to be viewed as an anomaly. Based on over two thousand criminal complaints and investigation dossiers, Sanne Muurling charts the multifaceted impact of gender on patterns of recorded crime in early modern Bologna. While various socioeconomic and legal mechanisms withdrew women from the criminal justice process, the casebooks also reveal that women - as criminal offenders and savvy litigants - had an active hand in keeping the wheels of the court spinning"--
Author : Rosemary Gartner
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199838704
The editors, Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy, have assembled a diverse cast of criminologists, historians, legal scholars, psychologists, and sociologists from a number of countries to discuss key concepts and debates central to the field. The Handbook includes examinations of the historical and contemporary patterns of women's and men's involvement in crime; as well as biological, psychological, and social science perspectives on gender, sex, and criminal activity. Several essays discuss the ways in which sex and gender influence legal and popular reactions to crime. An important theme throughout The Handbook is the intersection of sex and gender with ethnicity, class, age, peer groups, and community as influences on crime and justice. Individual chapters investigate both conventional topics - such as domestic abuse and sexual violence - and topics that have only recently drawn the attention of scholars - such as human trafficking, honor killing, gender violence during war, state rape, and genocide.
