Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England
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An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England.
List of Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Violence and Law, Gender and Law92When Men Killed Men403Sexual Violence764Homicidal Women and Homicidal Men: A Growing Contrast1235Bad Wives: Drunkenness and Other Provocations1706Bad Wives II: Adultery and the Unwritten Law2017Establishing Intention: Probing the Mind of a Wife Killer240Conclusion: The New "Reasonable Man" and Twentieth-Century Britain289Index293
