1st Edition
Crimes Of Outrage Sex, Violence, and Victorian Working Women
By Shani D'Cruze
Copyright 1998
272 Pages
by
Routledge
This provocative study explores the subordination of Victorian working women in the home, neighborhood, and workplace. Drawing on courtroom proceedings, D'Cruze reveals that women's interest in speaking out against violent crimes often coincide with the court's agenda to discipline the unruly behavior of working men. However, while women used local courts of vindicate their reputation before their neighbors, doing so often compromised their respectability in the eyes of the public.
Victorian femininities and masculinities; reading the narratives; working class women and working class culture; leisure, courtship and sex; domestic violence and child abuse; responses to violence.
Biography
Shani D'Cruze