Women, crime, and character: from moll flanders to tess of the d'urbervilles
Auteur :
Lacey FBA, Nicola
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199544363
Date de publication :
31 juil. 2008
Dimensions :
22,3 x 14,4 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
359 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book draws on law, literature, philosophy and social history to explore fundamental changes in ideas of selfhood, gender and social order in 18th and 19th Century England. Lacey argues that these changes underpinned a radical shift in mechanisms of responsibility-attribution, with decisive implications for the criminalisation of women.