Women and violent crime in enlightenment Scotland
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Women and violent crime in enlightenment Scotland
（Royal Historical Society studies in history new series）
Royal Historical Scoeity/Boydell Press, 2007
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Bibliography: p. 159-175
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Description
This book offers important new insights into the relationship between crime and gender in Scotland during the Enlightenment period. Against the backdrop of significant legislative changes that fundamentally altered the face of Scots law, Dr Kilday examines contemporary attitudes towards serious offences against the person committed by women. She draws particularly on rich and varied court records to explore female criminality and judicial responses to it in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through a series of case studies of homicide, infanticide, assault, popular disturbances and robbery, she argues that Scottish women were more predisposed to violence than their counterparts south of the border and considers how this relates to the contemporary drive to "civilise" popular behaviour and to promote a more ordered society. This book thus challenges conventional feminist interpretations that seewomen principally as the victims of male-controlled economies, institutions and power-structures, and calls for a major re-evaluation of the scope and significance of female criminality in this era. It will be of interest to scholars, students and those interested in the fields of gender studies, social history and the history of crime.
ANNE-MARIE KILDAY is Principal Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at Oxford Brookes University.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Scottish Crime and Scottish Women: Undiscovered Voices and Undiscovered Vices?
Scots Law in the Age of Enlightenment
Homicide
Infanticide
Assault
Popular Disturbances
Robbery
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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