Title Men of blood : violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England / Martin J. Wiener

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description xiv, 296 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm Contents 1. Violence and Law, Gender and Law -- 2. When Men Killed Men -- 3. Sexual Violence -- 4. Homicidal Women and Homicidal Men: A Growing Contrast -- 5. Bad Wives: Drunkenness and Other Provocations -- 6. Bad Wives II: Adultery and the Unwritten Law -- 7. Establishing Intention: Probing the Mind of a Wife Killer -- Conclusion: The New "Reasonable Man" and Twentieth-Century Britain Summary "This book examines far more thoroughly than ever before the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressive legal development called forth strong resistance, not only from violent men themselves but from others who drew upon discourses of democracy, humanitarianism, and patriarchy to establish sympathy with "men of blood.""--BOOK JACKET Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Homicide -- England -- History -- 19th century. Violence in men -- England -- History -- 19th century. Women -- Violence against -- England -- History -- 19th century. Wife abuse -- England -- History -- 19th century. Sexism -- England -- History -- 19th century. Criminal justice, Administration of -- England -- History -- 19th century. LC no. 2003048566 ISBN 0521831989

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