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Disorder in the Court
Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
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This collection of eleven essays by historians and literary scholars examines the role of the state in regulating sexual morality in France, England and the British Empire. Each essay focuses on a trial and the public debates surrounding it. The cases range from husband or wife murder, to divorce, child marriage and public indecency. The social conflicts bring to light differing ideologies of class, gender and sexuality in the age of the 'New Man', the 'New Woman' and the 'Third Sex'.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Disorder in the Court
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Public Offense against Decency: the Trial of the Count de Germiny and the âMoral Orderâ of the Third Republic
- 3 Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain
- 4 The English Dreyfus Case: Florence Maybrick and the Sexual Double-Standard
- 5 Did âMy Lord Gomorrahâ Smile?: Homosexuality, Class, and Prostitution in the Cleveland Street Affair
- 6 A Shock to Marriage?: the Clitheroe Case and the Victorians
- 7 Books on Trial: Prosecutions for Representing Sapphism in fin-de-siècle France
- 8 âDonât Frighten the Horsesâ: the Russell Divorce Case
- 9 Murder Most Foul: Spousal Homicides in Ontario, 1870â1915
- 10 Queer Follies: Effeminacy and Aestheticism in fin-de-siècle France, the Case of Baron dâAdelsward Fersen and Count de Warren
- 11 A New Man for a New Century: Dr. Crippen and the Principles of Masculinity
- 12 âThe Magistrates are Menâ: Working-Class Marital Conflict and Appeals from the Magistratesâ Court to the Divorce Court after 1895
- Index