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Informationen zum Autor Lucy Bland is Reader in History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Klappentext Looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24 Original, insightful and intriguing, Modern women on trial shows how public preoccupations and prejudices bear down on individual lives. Lucy Bland draws on a wide range of historical sources in interpreting the extraordinary evidence thrown up by a series of trials. Theoretically informed and beautifully narrated, this book breaks new ground in gender and in social history. Sheila Rowbotham, Honorary Fellow in Sociology at the University of Manchester Lucy Bland is a brilliant historian of sexuality and culture. Here she applies her forensic skill, lucid intelligence and wit to modern pathologies of female desire unleashed from husband and home, as they seemed to unsettle both English manhood and national integrity itself. Sally Alexander, Emeritus Professor of History, Goldsmiths, University of London Lucy Bland's eagerly anticipated account of women's experiences in the criminal courts of inter-war Britain has been well worth the wait. Unearthing a series of fascinating legal cases, she has produced a veritable page-turner. Bland brilliantly demonstrates how journalists and the judiciary attempted to shore up the boundaries - boundaries that World War One had weakened - separating the sexes, the classes and the races. Angus McLaren, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Victoria and author of Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain (2012) -- . Lucy Bland's eagerly anticipated account of women's experiences in the criminal courts of inter-war Britain has been well worth the wait. Unearthing a series of fascinating legal cases, she has produced a veritable page-turner. The sensational nature of many of her cases - dealing as most do with adultery, drugs, and murder - cannot fail to win the book a wide readership. But the real importance of her carefully crafted study is to make the important argument that trials and their reportage by the popular press played a crucial role in shaping the public's notion of what, in a modernising era, constituted proper feminine behaviour. Thanks to her enviable ability to place individual court confrontations in their larger social context, Bland brilliantly demonstrates how journalists and the judiciary attempted to shore up the boundaries - boundaries that World War One had weakened - separating the sexes, the classes and the races. -- Angus McLaren. Zusammenfassung Looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24 -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. The case of the 'Cult of the clitoris': Treachery, patriotism and English womanhood 2. Butterfly women, 'Chinamen', dope fiends and metropolitan allure 3. The tribulations of Edith Thompson: Sexual incitement as a capital crime4. Mme Fahmy's vindication: Orientalism, miscegenation fears and female fantasy 5. 'Hunnish scenes' and a 'Virgin birth': The contested marriage and motherhood of a curious modern womanAfterlivesBibliographyIndex...
