Description: Further DetailsTitle: Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment ScotlandCondition: NewISBN-10: 0861933303EAN: 9780861933303ISBN: 9780861933303Publisher: Royal Historical SocietyFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/18/2015Description: A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major legislative changes.This book offers important new insights into the relationship between crime and gender in Scotland during the Enlightenment period. Against the backdrop of significant legislative changes that fundamentally altered the face of Scots law, Anne-Marie Kilday examines contemporary attitudes towards serious offences against the person committed by women. She draws particularly on rich and varied court records to explores female criminality and judicial responses to it in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Through a series of case studies of homicide, infanticide, assault, popular disturbances and robbery, she argues that Scottish women were more predisposed to violence than their counterparts south of the border and considers how this relates to the contemporary drive to `civilise' popular behaviour and to promote a more ordered society. The book thus challenges conventional feminist interpretations that see women principally as the victims of male-controlled economies, institutions and power structures, and calls for a major re-evaluation of the scope and significance of female criminality in this era. It will be ofinterest to scholars, students and those interested in the fields of gender studies, social history and the history of crime. ANNE-MARIE KILDAY is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Criminal History at Oxford Brookes University.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Anne-Marie KildayGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New SeriesTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, HistoryItem Weight: 300gRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland
Title: Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland
ISBN-10: 0861933303
EAN: 9780861933303
ISBN: 9780861933303
Release Date: 06/18/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 194 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland
Publisher: Royal Historical Society
Item Height: 0.4 in
Subject: General, Criminal Law / General, Modern / General, Criminology
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Law, True Crime, Social Science, History
Author: Anne-Marie Kilday
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
