The Crimes of Women in Early Modern GermanyOxford University Press, 2001 - 292 sider 'The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany' is a fascinating study of 'deviant' women. It is the first scholarly account of how women were prosecuted for theft, infanticide, and sexual crimes in early modern Germany, and challenges the assumption that women were treated more leniently thanmen. Ulinka Rublack uses criminal trials to illuminate the social status and conflicts of women living through the Reformation and Thirty Years War, telling, for the first time, the stories of cutpurses, maidservants' dangerous liaisons, and artisans' troubled marriages. She provides athought-provoking analysis of labelling and sentencing processes, and of the punishments inflicted on those found guilty. Above all, she brilliantly engages with the way 'ordinary' women experienced authority and sexuality, household and community. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Gossip Silence or Accusation | 16 |
Trial and Punishment | 43 |
Women and Property Crime | 92 |
Sinful Sexualities | 134 |
Infanticide | 163 |
Married Life | 197 |
Incest | 231 |
Conclusion | 255 |
Appendix | 261 |
Bibliography | 264 |
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