Disorder in the Court
Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
Published on 9. July 1999
VIII, 254 pages
978-1-4039-3431-4 (ISBN)
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This collection of eleven essays by historians and literary scholars examines the role of the state in regulating sexual morality in France, England and the British Empire. Each essay focuses on a trial and the public debates surrounding it. The cases range from husband or wife murder, to divorce, child marriage and public indecency. The social conflicts bring to light differing ideologies of class, gender and sexuality in the age of the 'New Man', the 'New Woman' and the 'Third Sex'.
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George Robb | Nancy Erber
Disorder in the Court
Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
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07/1999
Palgrave Macmillan
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NICOLE ALBERT
ANTOINETTE BURTON Teacher, History Department and the Women's Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University
JULIE ENGLISH EARLY Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama, Huntsville
GINGER FROST Teacher, British History, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
ANNALEE GOLZ Teacher, Canadian History, University of Victoria
ANN SUMNER HOLMES Assistant Dean, Honors College, Louisiana State University
MORRIS KAPLAN Philosophy Department, Purchase College, the State University of New York
WILLIAM PENISTON Librarian, Newark Museum
GAIL SAVAGE Teacher, History, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Content
Notes on Contributors Introduction; N.Erber & G.Robb A Public Offense Against Decency: The Trial of the Count de Germiny and the 'Moral Order' of the Third Republic; W.Peniston Conjugality on Trial: The Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain; A.Burton The English Dreyfus Case: Florence Maybrick and the Sexual Double-Standard; G .Robb Did 'My Lord Gomorrah' Smile?: Homosexuality, Class and Prostitution in the Cleveland Street Affair; M.B. Kaplan A Shock to Marriage?: The Clitheroe Case and the Victorians; G.Frost Books on Trial: Prosecutions for Representing Sapphism in fin-de-siècle France; N.Albert 'Don't Frighten the Horses': The Russell Divorce Case; A.S.Holmes Murder Most Foul: Spousal Homicides in Ontario; A.E.Golz Queer Follies: Effeminacy and Aestheticism in fin-de-siècle France: The Case of Baron d'Adelsward Fersen and Count de Warren; N.Erber A New Man for a New Century: Dr.Crippen and the Principles of Masculinity; J.English Early 'The Magistrates are Men': Working-class Marital Conflict and Appeals from the Magistrates Court to the Divorce Court After 1895; G.Savage
