Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century - Hardcover

 
9780814775264: Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
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ISBN 10: 0814775268 ISBN 13: 9780814775264
Verlag: NYU Press - IPS, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

At the turn of the century, a spate of sensational trials kept French and English readers spellbound and ignited bitter tugs of war over marriage and divorce laws, women's rights, temperance, gay prostitution, and lesbian literature.
The chapters in Disorder in the Court each focus on a specific high-profile trial, and the public debates surrounding it, in order to address the role of the state in regulating sexual morality. The authors draw on police archives, records of coroners' inquests, magistrates' courts, and news coverage to bring to life social conflicts sparked by differing ideologies of class, gender, and sexuality. Also explored is the role of the police and 'scientific' methods of criminology in an era when working class marital conflicts were resolved by an axe blow, unwanted middle class spouses were dispatched with an arsenic diet, and government agents scanned sensational novels or loitered in Paris urinals in search of vice.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

George Robb is Assistant Professor of History at William Paterson University in New Jersey.

Nancy Erber is Associate Professor at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York.

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Verlag
NYU Press - IPS
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814775268
ISBN 13 
9780814775264
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
262
Herausgeber
Robb George, Erber Nancy
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