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Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950 : Gender and Class.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: D'Cruze, Shani
Otros Autores: Crewe, Ivor
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Colección:Women and men in history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.