Women, crime, and character
Subtitle: from Moll Flanders to Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By: Nicola Lacey.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780199544363
Subjects: Feminist jurisprudence; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Social aspects; Reputation (Law); Criminal liability
Description: This work draws on law, literature, philosophy and social history to explore fundamental changes in ideas of selfhood gender and social order in 18th and 19th century England. Lacey argues that these changes underpinned a radical shift in mechanisms of responsibility-attribution, with implications for the criminalisation of women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Don't go to murder my character': criminal responsibility in the age of Moll Flanders 1; title: 'What is the use of a woman's will?': the demise of Moll in the age of sensibility 51; title: 'The weaker half of the human family'?: responsibility, mind and morals in the age of Tess.