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Sexual forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England : age, crime and consent in the courts /
Drawing on court records from London and the South West, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England explores medical roles in trials for sexual offences. Its focus on sexual maturity, a more flexible concept than the legal age of consent, enables histories of sexual crime to be seen in a ne...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
Ã2016.
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| Colección: | Genders and sexualities in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Forensics; 1 Knowledge: The Foundations of Forensics; 2 Injury: Signs and the Sexual Body; 3 Innocence: Chastity and Character; 4 Consent: Violence and the Vibrating Scabbard; 5 Emotions: Medicine and the Mind; 6 Offenders: Lust and Labels; Conclusions: Medicine, Morality and the Law; Selected Bibliography; Index.