Martin J. Wiener, Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England
Whilst the study of Victorian masculinity has highlighted attempts to replace libertinism and pugilism with chivalric and heroic models, its significance for criminal justice history is only just beginning to be felt in published work. Historians of sexuality, such as Ed Cohen and Angus McClaren, h...
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | Whilst the study of Victorian masculinity has highlighted attempts to replace libertinism and pugilism with chivalric and heroic models, its significance for criminal justice history is only just beginning to be felt in published work. Historians of sexuality, such as Ed Cohen and Angus McClaren, have shown that the spectacle of the criminal trial constituted one arena in which normative heterosexual masculinities were contested, debated and reinforced in the late nineteenth century. Many st... |
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