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Wife-abuse in eighteenth-century France
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ISBN: 9780729409551 0729409554 Year: 2009 Volume: 2009:01 Publisher: Oxford: Voltaire foundation,

Woman battering as marital act : the construction of a violent marriage
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ISBN: 8200218066 Year: 1994 Publisher: Oslo Scandinavian University Press

Men who batter women
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ISBN: 041504099X 9781315788159 1315788152 9781317725657 1317725654 9781317725640 1317725646 9781317725664 1317725662 0415129427 9780415129428 9780415040990 Year: 1999 Publisher: London New York Routledge

What trouble I have seen : a history of violence against wives
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ISBN: 067495078X 0674950763 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge ; London Harvard University press

Men of blood : violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England
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ISBN: 9780521831987 9780511511547 9780521684163 0521831989 0521684161 051116632X 9780511166327 0511165196 9780511165191 9780511164392 0511164394 051151154X 1107148626 1280437715 0511165536 0511313055 9781107148628 9781280437717 9780511165535 9780511313059 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressive legal development called forth strong resistance, not only from violent men themselves but, from others who drew upon discourses of democracy, humanitarianism and patriarchy to establish sympathy with 'men of blood'. In exploring this development and the contest it generated, Professor Wiener analyzes the cultural logic underlying shifting practices in nineteenth-century courts and Whitehall, and locates competing cultural discourses in the everyday life of criminal justice. The tensions and dilemmas this book highlights are more than simply 'Victorian' ones; to an important degree they remain with us. Consequently this work speaks not only to historians and to students of gender but also to criminologists and legal theorists.

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