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9%OFFAnn-Louise Shapiro - Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-siecle Paris - 9780804726931 - V9780804726931
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Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-siecle Paris

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Description for Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-siecle Paris Paperback. Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siecle 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. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 half-tones, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.

Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siecle 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.

The author asserts that "female criminality" was a code that condensed and obscured larger concerns. For example, to what degree and in what ways did the symbolic overtones of female criminality connect to the substantive issues that appeared over and over again in the stories of women's crime? How ... Read more

This study demonstrates both the inadequacy of the categories of public and private as they have been conventionally used to segregate the subjects of historical inquiry and the artificiality of the boundaries between high and low culture. Instead, it moves between domestic life and public courtrooms, between social science literature and popular journalism, analyzing the complex responses to female crime among different constituencies and through different genres. In so doing, the author sheds light on various overlapping processes of cultural negotiation in a period of profound change.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804726931
SKU
V9780804726931
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99-50

Reviews for Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-siecle Paris
"Well-written, informed by feminist and literary theory, and ambitious, Breaking the Codes is a strong entry in the new cultural historiography of crime and criminal justice."—Social History

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