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Title

Gender and justice : violence, intimacy and community in fin-de siècle Paris / Eliza Earle Ferguson.

Author

Ferguson, Eliza Earle, 1970-

Publication

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2010.

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Description

[xi], 268 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Historian Eliza Earle Ferguson's meticulously researched study of domestic violence among the working class in France uncovers the intimate details of daily life and the complex workings of court proceedings in fin-de-siecle Paris." "With detective-like methods, Ferguson pores through hundreds of court records to understand why so many perpetrators of violent crime were fully acquitted. She finds that court verdicts depended on community standards for violence between couples. Her search uncovers voluminous testimony from witnesses, defendants, and victims documenting the conflicts and connections among men and women who struggled to balance love, desire, and economic need in their relationships." "Ferguson's detailed analysis of these cases enables her to reconstruct the social, cultural, and legal conditions in which they took place. Her ethnographic approach offers unprecedented insight into the daily lives of nineteenth-century Parisians, revealing how they chose their partners, what they fought about, and what drove them to violence. In their battles over money and sex, couples were in effect testing, stretching, and enforcing gender roles." "Gender and Justice will interest social and legal historians for its explanation of how the working class of fin-de-siecle Paris went about their lives and navigated the judicial system. Gender studies scholars will find Ferguson's analysis of the construction of gender particularly trenchant."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 128th ser., 1

Uniform Title

Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 128th ser., 1.

Subjects

• Murder > France > Paris > History > 19th century
• Marital violence > France > Paris > History > 19th century
• Working class > France > Paris > Social conditions > 19th century
• Women > Crimes against > France > Paris > History > 19th century
• Crimes of passion > France > Paris > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Problematizing crimes of passion -- La vie intime -- Material and symbolic household management -- Networks of knowledge -- Reciprocity and retribution -- Local knowledge and state power -- Reading and writing stories of intimate violence -- Conclusion : "Men who kill and women who vote."

Call Number

JFE 15-7168

ISBN

• 9780801894282 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 080189428X (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780801897924 (e-book)
• 0801897920 (e-book)

LCCN

2009018177

OCLC

320954273

Author

Ferguson, Eliza Earle, 1970-

Title

Gender and justice : violence, intimacy and community in fin-de siècle Paris / Eliza Earle Ferguson.

Imprint

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2010.

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text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 128th ser., 1

Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 128th ser., 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.

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JFE 15-7168