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Men of Blood - Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England (Hardcover)
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Men of Blood - Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England (Hardcover)
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An examination of 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'. In exploring
this development and the contest it generated, Professor Wiener
analyzes the cultural logic underlying shifting practices in
nineteenth-century courts and Whitehall, and locates competing
cultural discourses in the everyday life of criminal justice. The
tensions and dilemmas this book highlights are more than simply
'Victorian' ones; to an important degree they remain with us.
Consequently this work speaks not only to historians and to
students of gender but also to criminologists and legal theorists.
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