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Author Ferguson, Eliza Earle, 1970-

Title Gender and justice : violence, intimacy and community in fin-de siècle Paris / Eliza Earle Ferguson
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 268 pages)
Series Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 128th ser., 1
Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 128th ser., 1.
Contents La vie intime -- Material and symbolic household management -- Networks of knowledge -- Reciprocity and retribution -- Local knowledge and state power -- Reading and writing stories of intimate violence -- Conclusion : "Men who kill and women who vote."
Summary "Historian Eliza Earle Ferguson's meticulously researched study of domestic violence among the working class in France uncovers the intimate details of daily life and the complex workings of court proceedings in fin-de-siecle Paris." "With detective-like methods, Ferguson pores through hundreds of court records to understand why so many perpetrators of violent crime were fully acquitted. She finds that court verdicts depended on community standards for violence between couples. Her search uncovers voluminous testimony from witnesses, defendants, and victims documenting the conflicts and connections among men and women who struggled to balance love, desire, and economic need in their relationships." "Ferguson's detailed analysis of these cases enables her to reconstruct the social, cultural, and legal conditions in which they took place. Her ethnographic approach offers unprecedented insight into the daily lives of nineteenth-century Parisians, revealing how they chose their partners, what they fought about, and what drove them to violence. In their battles over money and sex, couples were in effect testing, stretching, and enforcing gender roles." "Gender and Justice will interest social and legal historians for its explanation of how the working class of fin-de-siecle Paris went about their lives and navigated the judicial system. Gender studies scholars will find Ferguson's analysis of the construction of gender particularly trenchant."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Crimes of passion -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
Marital violence -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
Women -- Crimes against -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
Working class -- France -- Paris -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Murder -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
Crimes of passion
Marital violence
Murder
Women -- Crimes against
Working class -- Social conditions
France -- Paris
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009018177
ISBN 9780801897924
0801897920
080189428X
9780801894282