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

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.

Product details

• Authors: D&, D'Cruze, Shani D'Cruze
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780875805788
• ISBN: 978-0-87580-578-8
• No. of pages: 271
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 907 g
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political E; Cornell Studies in Political E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology