Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950

Gender and Class
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-582-41907-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

Reihe: Women And Men In History

The diverse violence of modern Britain is hardly new. The Britain of 1850 to 1950 was similarly afflicted. The book is divided into four parts.

'Getting Hurt' which looks at everyday violence in the home (including a chapter on infanticide).

'Uses and Rejections' two chapters on the use of violence within groups of men and women outside the home (for example, violence within youth gangs, and male violence centred around pubs).

'Going Public' three chapters on how violence was regulated by law and the professional agencies which were set up to deal with it.

'Perceptions and Representations' this final section looks at how violence was written about, using both fiction and non-fiction sources.

Throughout the book the recurring themes of gender, class, continuity and change, public/private, and experience, discourses and representations are highlighted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Cruze, Shani

Crewe, Ivor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Foreword Elizabeth A. Stanko ntroduction: Unguarded passions: violence, history and the everyday PART I THE USES OF VIOLENCE PART II THE REGULATION OF VIOLENCE PART III THE REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE Selected Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shani D'Cruze is Reader in Women's History at Manchester Metropolitan University.