CRIME, GENDER AND SOCIAL ORDER IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND.
Series: CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN BRITISH HISTORY
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: CAMBRIDGE
Language: und
Number of pages: 310
Description: "This is the first extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts." "Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war has implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies of crime, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period."--Jacket.