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Author Wiener, Martin J.
Title Men of blood [electronic resource] : violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England / Martin J. Wiener.
Publication Info Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.



Descript xvi, 296 p.
Contents 1. Violence and Law, Gender and Law -- 2. When Men Killed Men -- 3. Sexual Violence -- 4. Homicidal Women and Homicidal Men: A Growing Contrast -- 5. Bad Wives: Drunkenness and Other Provocations -- 6. Bad Wives II: Adultery and the Unwritten Law -- 7. Establishing Intention: Probing the Mind of a Wife Killer -- Conclusion: The New "Reasonable Man" and Twentieth-Century Britain.
ISBN 0511164394
0521831989
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Author Wiener, Martin J.
Subject Homicide -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Violence in men -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Violence against -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Wife abuse -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Sexism -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)
Descript xvi, 296 p.
Contents 1. Violence and Law, Gender and Law -- 2. When Men Killed Men -- 3. Sexual Violence -- 4. Homicidal Women and Homicidal Men: A Growing Contrast -- 5. Bad Wives: Drunkenness and Other Provocations -- 6. Bad Wives II: Adultery and the Unwritten Law -- 7. Establishing Intention: Probing the Mind of a Wife Killer -- Conclusion: The New "Reasonable Man" and Twentieth-Century Britain.
ISBN 0511164394
0521831989
Author Wiener, Martin J.
Subject Homicide -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Violence in men -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Violence against -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Wife abuse -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Sexism -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)

Subject Homicide -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Violence in men -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Violence against -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Wife abuse -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Sexism -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Descript xvi, 296 p.
Contents 1. Violence and Law, Gender and Law -- 2. When Men Killed Men -- 3. Sexual Violence -- 4. Homicidal Women and Homicidal Men: A Growing Contrast -- 5. Bad Wives: Drunkenness and Other Provocations -- 6. Bad Wives II: Adultery and the Unwritten Law -- 7. Establishing Intention: Probing the Mind of a Wife Killer -- Conclusion: The New "Reasonable Man" and Twentieth-Century Britain.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0511164394
0521831989

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