Crime, Violence and Visibility: Gendering Understandings of Violence, Disorder and Protest in England and Wales 1784-2010

by Judith Rowbotham

Though there has been much work on the change in attitudes towards violence since the late eighteenth century, little attention has been paid to the gendered profile of its development or the consequent differential cultural understandings of criminality manifested by men and women, as well as the wider contextualization of violence within society.

This book examines the gendering of violence from the late eighteenth century onwards and reflects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415811147
• ISBN13: 9780415811149
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages