Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-De-Siècle Paris

By Ann-Louise Shapiro

Book Overview

Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-si cle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the ways in which issues of gender were central to the most important cultural transformations of the period.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804716633
• ISBN13: 9780804716635
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"