Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England

Author: Garthine Walker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-06-12

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1139435116

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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.

Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main
Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main

Author: Jeannette Kamp

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-12-09

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 9004388443

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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.

Venomous Tongues
Venomous Tongues

Author: Sandy Bardsley

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2006-05-31

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0812239369

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"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

Women In Early Modern England, 1500-1700
Women In Early Modern England, 1500-1700

Author: Jacqueline Eales

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-08

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1135367728

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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.

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England
Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England

Author: Margaret W. Ferguson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780802087577

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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.

Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914
Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914

Author: Manon van der Heijden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1108477712

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Places female criminality within its everyday context, bringing together the most current research on crime and gender.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime
The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime

Author: Rosemary Gartner

Publisher: Oxford Handbooks

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 745

ISBN-13: 0199838704

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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.

The Youth of Early Modern Women
The Youth of Early Modern Women

Author: Elizabeth Storr Cohen

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789462984325

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Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry -- cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences -- these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse England, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and Mexico from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, their own life writings, young women's training for adulthood, courtship, and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.