Sex And Violence In 1920s Scotland

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Using case records of prosecutions at the Scottish High Court of Justiciary between 1918 and 1930, this book takes a quantitative and qualitative approach to understand sexual violence in Scotland at this time. Analysing legal records alongside victim and witness testimonies, Louise Heren analyses who committed sexual violence against whom, where and how and, to an extent, looks to uncover the victims' voice. Assessing how the courts responded, Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland reveals that, despite pejorative views of working-class female behaviour, the successful conversion of prosecutions to convictions was greater than what is seen in modern sexual assault cases. In a society adjusting to post-conflict stresses, there were fears expressed in middle-class circles that those most affected by the First World War might react with violence. However, the High Court archives suggest otherwise. Cases of incest, rape and sexual assault appears to have been endemic, an opportunistic crime against older victims yet often pre-meditated against the youngest; selfish crimes that suggest toxic masculinity among some working-class men. The book concludes with the ultimate question: why did these men perpetrate sexual violence?

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Genre : History
Author : Louise Heren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2023-10-05
File : 273 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781350227781


Sex And Violence In 1920s Scotland

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Using case records of prosecutions at the Scottish High Court of Justiciary between 1918 and 1930, this book takes a quantitative and qualitative approach to understand sexual violence in Scotland at this time. Analysing legal records alongside victim and witness testimonies, Louise Heren analyses who committed sexual violence against whom, where and how and, to an extent, looks to uncover the victims' voice. Assessing how the courts responded, Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland reveals that, despite pejorative views of working-class female behaviour, the successful conversion of prosecutions to convictions was greater than what is seen in modern sexual assault cases. In a society adjusting to post-conflict stresses, there were fears expressed in middle-class circles that those most affected by the First World War might react with violence. However, the High Court archives suggest otherwise. Cases of incest, rape and sexual assault appears to have been endemic, an opportunistic crime against older victims yet often pre-meditated against the youngest; selfish crimes that suggest toxic masculinity among some working-class men. The book concludes with the ultimate question: why did these men perpetrate sexual violence?

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Genre : History
Author : Louise Heren
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Release : 2023
File : 0 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1350235369


Scottish Women S Fiction 1920s To 1960s

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Conveying a sense of the growth, development and variety of fiction by women in 20th-century Scotland, this volume provides historical and cultural context for the detailed discussion of 11 novels. It features works by such authors as Catherine Carswell, Willa Muir and Muriel Spark.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Carol Anderson
Publisher : John Donald
Release : 2000
File : 184 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015042872153


Sociological Abstracts

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CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

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Genre : Online databases
Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher :
Release : 2002
File : 670 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015078349415


Labour History Review

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Genre : Labor
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Release : 2004
File : 816 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105121663707


The Economist

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Genre : Commerce
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Release : 2008
File : 1658 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:49015003302636


Talking Book Topics

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Genre : Talking books
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Release : 2009
File : 100 Pages
ISBN-13 : UFL:31262095580634


Alberto Giacometti 1901 1966

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A giant of twentieth-century art, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) stands beside Picasso and Matisse as an artist who has defined the way our century is perceived, and alongside them as one of the few modern artists who have created sculpture, paintings and drawings with equal mastery. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies a major retrospective of Giacometti's work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. The two hundred and forty-one works in the exhibition include many of Giacometti's greatest and best-known pieces, as well as rarely-seen Surrealist sculptures and previously unrecorded works. All are reproduced - eighty as full page colour plates. The fully illustrated essays, written by some of the world's leading Giacometti scholars, bring together remarkable new research and make this book an invaluable introduction to the artist's life and work.

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Genre : Art
Author : Alberto Giacometti
Publisher : Bodley Head
Release : 1996
File : 200 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015040998174


Book Review Index

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Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

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Genre : Books
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Release : 2003
File : 1520 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X004667564


New Literature On Women

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Genre : Women
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Release : 2000
File : 400 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCBK:C078173126