Beyond Deviant Damsels: Re-Evaluating Female Criminality in the Nineteenth Century

by Anne-Marie Kilday and David Kilday

Using detailed case studies, Beyond Deviant Damsels undermines many of the conventional assumptions about how women committed crime in the nineteenth century. Previous historical accounts generally constructed gendered stereotypes of women acting in self-defence, being lesser accomplices to male criminals, committing crimes that require little or no physical effort, or pursuing supposedly 'female' goals (such as material acquisition). This study counters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198830734
• ISBN13: 9780198830733
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"