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Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History SerPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press June 2003.Description: 332 p. ill 08.980 x 05.980 inISBN:
  • 9780521573566
  • 0521573564 (Trade Cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.3/74 21
Online resources: Summary: Annotation Garthine Walker reveals that women were not treated leniently by the courts and that beliefs about gender and order impacted on real legal outcomes in early modern England. She demonstrates that the household role had as much to do with the nature of criminality as the individual in this period. Challenging hitherto accepted views regarding gender stereotyping, this book illuminates the complexities of everyday English life in the early modern period.
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Annotation Garthine Walker reveals that women were not treated leniently by the courts and that beliefs about gender and order impacted on real legal outcomes in early modern England. She demonstrates that the household role had as much to do with the nature of criminality as the individual in this period. Challenging hitherto accepted views regarding gender stereotyping, this book illuminates the complexities of everyday English life in the early modern period.

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