Lesbianism and the Criminal Law

Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales

AvCaroline Derry

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the ways in which the criminal justice system of England and Wales has regulated, and failed or refused to regulate, lesbianism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-30
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:446 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:323
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030353025

Utforska kategorier

Lag och samhälle inom Juridik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Rättshistoria inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Caroline Derry is Lecturer in Law at the Open University, UK. She taught for fifteen years at London Metropolitan University where she was a senior lecturer in Criminal and Evidence Law and Gender and Law, and LLB course leader. She has been a visiting lecturer in Criminal Law at SOAS and at Paris Descartes. She is a co-author of Complete Criminal Law (OUP, 2018) and Gender and Law (Routledge, 2018).

Innehållsförteckning

1.Introduction.- 2.Mary/Charles Hamilton: eighteenth-century female husband prosecutions.- 3.Louise Mourey and the ‘Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon’.- 4.‘Gross indecency between females’: the 1921 Parliamentary debates.- 5.Victor/Valerie Barker: sexology and challenges to silencing.- 6.The Wolfenden Report: a shift in silencing.- 7.Allen: sexual offences prosecutions in the late twentieth century.- 8.McNally: sexual offences, gender and consent.- 9.Conclusion.