Sex, violence and local courts. Working-class respectability in a mid-nineteenth-century Lancashire town

Complex issues of class and gender were highlighted when sexual and physical violence against women came up in mid-nineteenth-century local courts. In Middleton, Lancashire, despite its large female industrial workforce, these cases mostly associated working women's social identities with home...

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Main Author: D'Cruze, Shani (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
Published: 1999
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 1999, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-55
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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