Titlebook: Disorder in the Court; Trials and Sexual Co George Robb (Assistant Professor of History),Nancy Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of

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,Did “My Lord Gomorrah” Smile?: Homosexuality, Class, and Prostitution in the Cleveland Street Affaism.. Much of the recent literature in lesbian and gay studies has paid increasing attention to historical issues around the “social construction” of sexuality. This work helps to situate norms of freedom and equality, such as those defended by John Stuart Mill, within a complex cultural context. His

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,“Don’t Frighten the Horses”: the Russell Divorce Case,respectability” is a dominant theme in the social history of nineteenth- century England. The upper classes’ permissive attitude toward propriety was cleverly expressed by the Edwardian actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell’s famous comment: “It doesn’t matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don’t

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,Murder Most Foul: Spousal Homicides in Ontario, 1870–1915, for their steadfast dedication to the institutions of marriage and the family. Armed with statistics which compared Canada’s characteristically low divorce rates with those in England and especially in the United States, he drew what was, in his view, the obvious conclusion. “Thank God,” he stated,

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,Queer Follies: Effeminacy and Aestheticism in , France, the Case of Baron d’Adelsward Fersen and Cos,” followed in smaller type by the tantalizing nuggets: “Orgies and Saturnalia,” and “Monsieur d’Ardouzet [.] Arrested Last Night.” That same day another daily, ., relegated the story to its crime news column deep inside the paper, but it was equally quick to underline salacious aspects of the case

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A New Man for a New Century: Dr. Crippen and the Principles of Masculinity, five days, but the case itself commanded newspaper attention for nearly six months. Further, it has not only earned Crippen a place at Madame Tussaud’s, but also prompted an array of fictionalized retellings, and has figured in retrospective accounts of sensational British crimes for over 80 years.

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,“The Magistrates are Men”: Working-Class Marital Conflict and Appeals from the Magistrates’ Court tng a boundary between properly accorded privacy and discord which poses a threat sufficient to justify official intervention raises complex issues of both principle and practice. Authorities charged with the responsibility of monitoring this boundary – the police and the courts – must evaluate confl

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-99357-2eaner record than that of any other progressive people on the face of the earth” in effectively safeguarding both the sanctity of marriage and the stability of the family unit as two foundations of the social order.