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Breaking the Codes - Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris (Hardcover)
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Breaking the Codes - Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris (Hardcover)
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Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siecle that
uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the
debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and
the ways in which issues of gender were central to the most
important cultural transformations of the period.
The author asserts that "female criminality" was a code that
condensed and obscured larger concerns. For example, to what degree
and in what ways did the symbolic overtones of female criminality
connect to the substantive issues that appeared over and over again
in the stories of women's crime? How were the crimes of domestic
violence, infanticide, and abortion interpreted in the context of
broader debates about divorce, depopulation, sexuality, and women's
roles in the public sphere? What was the role of expert commentary
- from the forensic psychiatrist, the criminologist, the legal
scholar - in producing a normative code for female behavior? And
how did this code accommodate or resist the newly recognized voice
of popular opinion and changing notions of citizenship?
This study demonstrates both the inadequacy of the categories of
public and private as they have been conventionally used to
segregate the subjects of historical inquiry and the artificiality
of the boundaries between high and low culture. Instead, it moves
between domestic life and public courtrooms, between social science
literature and popular journalism, analyzing the complex responses
to female crime among different constituencies and through
different genres. In so doing, the author sheds light on various
overlapping processes of cultural negotiation in a period of
profound change.
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