*NO INTRODUCTION/CONCLUSION
*Essay Question: READ BOTH ITEMS 1)Rowbotham, Judith, (2000) ‘“Only When Drunk”: the stereotyping of violence in England, c.1850-1900’, in
Everyday Violence in
Britain, 1850-1950, edited by Shani D’Cruze, Pearson: Essex, pp.155-169.
2)Wiener, Martin J. (2004), Chapter 5 – ‘Bad Wives: Drunkenness and Other Provocations’, in Men of Blood: Violent, Manliness
and Criminal Justice in Victorian England, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp.170-200.
->Using these two chapters,
With reference to marital relations, explain the connections between gender, drunkenness and violence in the nineteenth
century. In your answer you should consider: a)The effect of a male perpetrator’s drunkenness on the perceived seriousness of his violent
actions;
b)The effect of a female perpetrator’s drunkenness on the perceived seriousness of her violent actions; c)The effect of a murdered woman’s
drunkenness on how her killing would be perceived and prosecuted.
*Reference: Bailey, Joanne (2010), ‘Cruelty and Adultery: Offences Against the Institution of Marriage’, in Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-
2000, edited by Kilday, Anne-Marie, and Nash, David, Palgrave: Basingstoke, pp.39-59.
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