The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany Paperback / softback
by Ulinka (Fellow and Director of Studies, Fellow and Director of Studies, St John's College, Rublack
Part of the Oxford Studies in Social History series
Paperback / softback
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'The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany' is a fascinating study of 'deviant' women.
It is the first scholarly account of how women were prosecuted for theft, infanticide, and sexual crimes in early modern Germany, and challenges the assumption that women were treated more leniently than men.
Ulinka Rublack uses criminal trials to illuminate the social status and conflicts of women living through the Reformation and Thirty Years War, telling, for the first time, the stories of cutpurses, maidservants' dangerous liaisons, and artisans' troubled marriages.
She provides a thought-provoking analysis of labelling and sentencing processes, and of the punishments inflicted on those found guilty.
Above all, she brilliantly engages with the way 'ordinary' women experienced authority and sexuality, household and community.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages, 11 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:08/02/2001
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- ISBN:9780198208860
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages, 11 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:08/02/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198208860
