[PDF.41ov] Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England

Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England

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 | #3420207 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2006-04-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.71 x5.98l,.95 | File type: PDF | 316 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent and Important Scholarship|By Heather|I’m reading this right now and planning to use it in my thesis. Wiener does an excellent job of comparing and contrasting the difference in treatment of violent women vs violent men. The sources used are solid and well, basically this book is exactly what I was hoping it would be. I’d give a more detailed book review, b| |"A masterwork. Weiner traces the intricate process by which English manliness shifted from brutal and bloody viciousness to restraint and self-mastery. Deeply grounded in murder trials, he finds the social, political, and cultural threads to this broad cultura

This book examines the treatment of violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. Criminal law came to punish violence more systematically and severely during Victoria's reign because it was promoting a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet, this apparently progressive legal development triggered strong resistance, not only from violent men but others who engaged in arguments about democracy, humanitarianism and patriarchy to establish sympathy with "m...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England   |  Martin J. Wiener. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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