Gender in the Proceedings
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General Works on Gender
Barker, Hanna, Chalus, Elaine (ed). Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities. Harlow, 1997.
Carter, Philip. Men and the Emergence of Polite Society in Britain, 1660-1800. Harlow, 2001.
Clark, Anna. The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class. Berkeley, 1995.
Davidoff, Leonore, Hall, Catherine. Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850. London, 1987; revised edition, London, 2002.
Earle, Peter. A City Full of People: Men and Women of London 1650-1750. London, 1994.
Erickson, Amy. Women and Property in Early Modern England. London, 1993.
Fletcher, Anthony. Gender, Sex and Subordination in England, 1500-1800. London, 1987.
Hitchcock, T., Cohen, M. (ed). English Masculinities, 1660-1800. London, 1999.
Honeyman, Katrina. Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870. Basingstoke, 2000.
Hunt, Margaret. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England, 1680-1780. Berkeley, California, 1996.
Kent, Susan Kingsley. Gender and Power in Britain, 1640-1990. London, 1999.
Laurence, Anne. Women in England 1500-1760. London, 1994.
Shoemaker, Robert B.. Gender in English Society 1650-1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres?. Harlow, 1998.
Walkowitz, Judith R. City of dreadful delight : narratives of sexual danger in late Victorian London.. London, 1992.
Gender and Crime
Arnot, Margaret, Usborne, Cornelie (ed). Gender and Crime in Modern Europe. London, 1999.
Beattie, J. M.. The Criminality of Women in Eighteenth-Century England. Journal of Social History, 8 (1975). pp: 80-116.
Beattie, J. M.. Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800. Princeton, 1986.
Notes: chap.2 - policing; chap.3 - killing; chaps.4-5 - theft; chap.5 - gender; chaps.6-7 - judicial procedures; chap.8 trial verdicts; chaps.9-10 - punishment View or add to this citation.
Clark, Anna. Humanity or Justice? Wifebeating and the Law in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. In Smart, C. (ed), Regulating Womanhood: Historical Essays on Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality. London, 1992.
Doody, Margaret. Voices of Record: Women as Witnesses and Defendants in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers. In S. S. Heinzelman (ed), Representing Women: Law, Literature and Feminism. Durham, North Carolina, 1994.
Durston, Gregory. Victims and Viragos: Metropolitan Women, Crime and the Eighteenth-Century Justice System. Bury St. Edmunds, 2007.
Feeley, Malcolm, Little, Deborah. The Vanishing Female: The Decline of Women in the Criminal Process, 1687-1912. Law and Society Review, 25 (1991). pp: 719-57.
Feeley, Malcolm. The Decline of Women in the Criminal Process: A Comparative History. Criminal Justice History, 15 (1994). pp: 235-74.
Humfrey, Paula. Female Servants and Women's Criminality in Early Eighteenth-Century London. In Smith, Greg T, May, Allyson N., Devereaux, Simon (ed), Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New. Toronto, 1998.
Hurl-Eamon, Jennine. Policing Male Heterosexuality: The Reformation of Manners Societies' Campaign against the Brothels in Westminster, 1690-1720. Journal of Social History, 37:4 (2004). pp: 1017-35.
Hurl-Eamon, Jennine. Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680-1720. Columbus, Ohio, 2005.
Kermode, Jenny, Walker, Garthine (ed). Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. London, 1994.
King, Peter. Female Offenders, Work and Life-Cycle Change in Late Eighteenth-Century London. Continuity and Change, 11 (1990). pp: 61-90.
King, Peter. Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820. Oxford, 2000.
Notes: chap.2-3 - policing; chap.5 - gender; chap.6 - theft; chap.7 - judicial procedures, verdicts; chap.8-10 - punishment general; chap.9 - pardons View or add to this citation.
MacKay, L.. Why They Stole: Women in the Old Bailey, 1779-1789. Journal of Social History, 32 (1999). pp: 623-39.
Palk, Deirdre. Gender, Crime and Judicial Discretion, 1780-1830. Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2006.
Rosenthal, L. J.. The Whore's Estate: Sally Salisbury, Prostitution, and Property in Eighteenth-Century London. In Wright, N.E., Ferguson, M.W., Buck, A. R. (ed), Women, Property and the Letters of theLaw in Early Modern England. Toronto, 2004. pp: 95-120.
Rudé, George. Criminal and Victim: Crime and Society in Early Nineteenth-Century England. Oxford, 1984.
Notes: Chapter 4 on gender and crime View or add to this citation.
Shoemaker, R. B.. Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex. Cambridge, 1991.
Notes: chap.2 - judicial procedures; chap.8 - gender View or add to this citation.
Shoemaker, R. B.. Male Honour and the Decline of Public Violence in Eighteenth-Century London. Social History, 26 (2001). pp: 190-208.
Shoemaker, R. B.. The Taming of the Duel: Masculinity, Honour and Ritual Violence in London, 1660-1800. Historical Journal, 45 (2002). pp: 525-45.
Web: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/1629/. DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X02002534. View or add to this citation.
Turner, D. M.. Popular Marriage and the Law: Tales of Bigamy at the Eighteenth-Century Old Bailey. London Journal, 30:1 (2005). pp: 6-21.
Walker, Garthine. Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England. Cambridge, 2003.
Wiener, Martin. The Victorian Criminalization of Men. In Spierenburg, P. (ed), Men and Violence: Gender, Honor and Ritual in Modern Europe and America. Columbus, Ohio, 1998.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England. Oxford, 1991.
