Victoria Bates

Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England

Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on court records from London and the South West, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England explores medical roles in trials for sexual offences. Its focus on sexual maturity, a more flexible concept than the legal age of consent, enables histories of sexual crime to be seen in a new light.

Produktdetails

• Genders and Sexualities in History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-44170-6
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781137441706
• ISBN-10: 1137441704
• Artikelnr.: 43226637

Autorenporträt

Victoria Bates is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bristol, UK. She has a particular research interest in the social and cultural history of medicine in modern Britain, including medico-legal history and medical humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Forensics
1. Knowledge: The Foundations of Forensics
2. Injury: Signs and the Sexual Body
3. Innocence: Chastity and Character
4. Consent: Violence and the Vibrating Scabbard
5. Emotions: Medicine and the Mind
6. Offenders: Lust and Labels
Conclusions: Medicine, Morality and the Law