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Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland (Paperback)
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Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland (Paperback)
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female
criminality in a period of major legislative changes. This book
offers important new insights into the relationship between crime
and gender in Scotland during the Enlightenment period. Against the
backdrop of significant legislative changes that fundamentally
altered the face of Scots law, Anne-Marie Kilday examines
contemporary attitudes towards serious offences against the person
committed by women. She draws particularly on rich and varied court
records to explores female criminality and judicial responses to it
in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Through a series
of case studies of homicide, infanticide, assault, popular
disturbances and robbery, she argues that Scottish women were more
predisposed to violence than their counterparts south of the border
and considers how this relates to the contemporary drive to
`civilise' popular behaviour and to promote a more ordered society.
The book thus challenges conventional feminist interpretations that
see women principally as the victims of male-controlled economies,
institutions and power structures, and calls for a major
re-evaluation of the scope and significance of female criminality
in this era. It will be ofinterest to scholars, students and those
interested in the fields of gender studies, social history and the
history of crime. ANNE-MARIE KILDAY is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean
of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of
Criminal History at Oxford Brookes University.
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