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Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England

Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England

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Technology & EngineeringGeneral European HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0521684161
ISBN13: 9780521684163
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 3 2006
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.96 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This book examines the treatment of violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. Criminal law came to punish violence more systematically and severely during Victoria's reign because it was promoting a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet, this apparently progressive legal development triggered strong resistance, not only from violent men but others who engaged in arguments about democracy, humanitarianism and patriarchy to establish sympathy with men of blood.

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