Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950 : Gender and Class.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction: Unguarded passions: violence, history and the everyday -- PART I THE USES OF VIOLENCE -- 1. Domesticity and the problem of wifebeating in nineteenth-century Britain: working-class culture, law and politics -- 2. 'Men behaving badly'?: masculinity and the uses of violence, 1850-1900 -- 3. Understanding women committing newborn child murder in Victorian England -- 4. Youth gangs, gender and violence, 1870-1900 -- PART II THE REGULATION OF VIOLENCE -- 5. 'Ingenuities of the female mind': legal and public perceptions of sexual violence in Victorian England, 1850-1890 -- 6. 'She resisted with all her might': sexual violence against women in late nineteenth-century Manchester and the local press -- 7. Women professionals and the regulation of violence in interwar Britain -- 8. Exposing 'the inner life': the Women's Co-operative Guild's attitude to 'cruelty' -- PART III THE REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE -- 9. 'Only when drunk': the stereotyping of violence in England, c. 1850-1900 -- 10. Keeping ourselves to ourselves: violence in the Edwardian suburb -- 11. The trial of Madame Fahmy: Orientalism, violence, sexual perversity and the fear of miscegenation -- 12. 'The irons of their fetters have eaten into their souls': nineteenth-century feminist strategies to get our bodies onto the political agenda -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

This collection looks at the historical experience of violence, and at the ways in which it has been used as a means of gaining power in social relations.

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