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An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressive legal development called forth strong resistance, not only from violent men themselves but, from others who drew upon discourses of democracy, humanitarianism and patriarchy to establish sympathy with 'men of blood'. In exploring this development and the contest it generated, Professor Wiener analyzes the cultural logic underlying shifting practices in nineteenth-century courts and Whitehall, and locates competing cultural discourses in the everyday life of criminal justice. The tensions and dilemmas this book highlights are more than simply 'Victorian' ones; to an important degree they remain with us. Consequently this work speaks not only to historians and to students of gender but also to criminologists and legal theorists.

Violence in men --- Wife abuse --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Homicide --- Sexism --- Women --- Sex bias --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Prejudices --- Sex (Psychology) --- Social perception --- Sex role --- Administration of criminal justice --- Justice, Administration of --- Crime --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Femicide --- Offenses against the person --- Violent deaths --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Abuse of wives --- Battering of wives --- Beating of wives --- Wife battering --- Wife beating --- Wives --- Spousal abuse --- Abused wives --- Uxoricide --- Male violence --- Violent men --- Men --- History --- England --- Violence against --- Law and legislation --- Abuse of --- History of the law --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- anno 1800-1899 --- 19th century --- Criminal justice [Administration of ] --- Arts and Humanities --- Homicide - England - History - 19th century --- Violence in men - England - History - 19th century --- Women - Violence against - England - History - 19th century --- Wife abuse - England - History - 19th century --- Sexism - England - History - 19th century --- Criminal justice, Administration of - England ‰x History - 19th century