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Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680-1720

Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680-1720

Hurl-Eamon, Jennine

Paperback

Series: History Crime & Criminal Jus

CriminologyBritish HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0814257291
ISBN13: 9780814257296
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Jan 29 2021
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Looking at a heretofore overlooked set of archival records of London in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Hurl-Eamon reassesses the impact of gender on petty crime and its prosecution during the period. This book offers a new approach to the growing body of work on the history of violence in past societies. By focusing upon low-cost prosecutions in minor courts, Hurl-Eamon uncovers thousands of assaults on the streets of early modern London. Previous histories stressing the masculine nature of past violence are questioned here: women perpetrated one-third of all assaults. In looking at more mundane altercations rather than the homicidal attacks studied in previous histories, the book investigates violence as a physical language, with some forms that were subject to gender constraints, but many of which were available to both men and women. Quantitative analyses of various circumstances surrounding the assaults-including initial causes, weapons used, and injuries sustained-outline the patterns of violence as a language.

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