Gender, Crime and Feminism

by Naffine, Ngaire

• ISBN13: 9781855215436
• ISBN10: 1855215438
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-04-01
• Publisher: Dartmouth Pub Co

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction: Feminism and Modern Criminology
Women and Crime: The Female Offender	p. 3
Towards a Sceptical Look at Sexism	p. 23
Feminism, Criminology and the Rise of the Female Sex "Delinquent", 1880-1930	p. 51
Whores in Court: Judicial Processing of Prostitutes in the Boston Municipal Court in 1990	p. 73
Men, Crime and Criminology: Recasting the Questions	p. 99
Feminist Readings of Female Delinquency	p. 121
Infanticide: A Litmus Test for Feminist Criminological Theory	p. 149
Living on the Edge	p. 167
Chamberlain Revisited: The Case Against the Media	p. 175
From Oppressed to Victims: Collective Actors and the Symbolic Use of the Criminal Justice System	p. 183
Lifestyle as Resistance: The Case of the Courtesans of Lucknow, India	p. 199
Outlaw Women: An Essay on Thelma and Louise	p. 229
Coercion and Consent: Classic Liberal Concepts in Texts on Sexual Violence	p. 247
Exit: Power and the Idea of Leaving in Love, Work, and the Confirmation Hearings	p. 263
Home-Rebels and House-Traitors: Murderous Wives in Early Modern England	p. 301
Getting into Trouble: Dishonest Women, Modern Girls, and Women-Men in the Conceptual Language of Vida Policial, 1925-1927	p. 333
Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality	p. 365
Women and Crime: The Dark Figures of Criminology	p. 381
Women, Crime, Feminism, and Realism	p. 429
Towards Transgression: New Directions in Feminist Criminology	p. 447
Name Index	p. 465
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