RT Article
T1 A new front in the history wars? Responding to Rubenhold’s feminist revision of the Ripper
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 22
IS 5
SP 659
OP 675
A1 Bleakley, Paul
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1817939335
AB Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed By Jack the Ripper has drawn the criticism of the community of amateur sleuths dubbed ‘Ripperologists’ for its revisionist perspective, which claims that the canonical five victims of Jack the Ripper were not all sex workers. Rubenhold’s victim-centred approach has opened a new front in the history wars, as Ripperologists accuse her of historical denialism in pursuit of a feminist agenda. This article assesses Rubenhold’s methods, and her contribution to historical criminology, as well as considering why dominant historical narratives of crime prove so resistant to reinterpretation.
K1 Revisionism
K1 Methodology
K1 Jack the Ripper
K1 history wars
K1 Historical criminology
DO 10.1177/1748895821992460