Gender and petty violence in London, 1680-1720 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hurl-Eamon, Jennine.
Imprint:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2005.
Description:	xii, 213 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	History of crime and criminal justice History of crime and criminal justice series.
Subject:	Assault and battery -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century. Assault and battery -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century. Trials (Assault and battery) -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century. Trials (Assault and battery) -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century. Women -- Violence against -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century. Women -- Violence against -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century. Female offenders -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century. Female offenders -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century. Assault and battery. Female offenders. Trials (Assault and battery) Women -- Violence against. England -- London. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5710198

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ISBN:	0814209874 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814290612 (CD-ROM)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-204) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Textual Notes
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part 1. Prosecutors
Chapter 2. A Litigating Society: Victimhood and the Prosecutors of Assault
Chapter 3. Curbing Masculine Petty Violence: The Victims of Sexual Assault and the Mohock Scare
Chapter 4. Female Assault Victims: Pregnant Women and Battered Wives as Prosecutors
Part 2. Perpetrators
Chapter 5. Forms of Petty Violence: The Nature and Circumstances of Masculine and Feminine Assaults
Chapter 6. Petty Violence against the State: Assaults on the Government, Military, and Police
Chapter 7. Female Assailants: Women as Rioters and Rescuers
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Appendix A. The Westminster Assault Recognizances
Appendix B. The Bishop of London's Consistory Court Defamation Depositions and Accounts of Felonious Violence in the OBP
Notes
Bibliography

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