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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-11 - Publisher: Springer
This book explores ideas of violent femininity across generic and disciplinary boundaries during the nineteenth century. It aims to highlight how medical, legal
Language: en
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Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
McLaren develops a historiographical survey on Victorian attitudes toward sexuality and morality, and their relation to violence as he describes the story of Dr
Language: en
Pages: 340
Pages: 340
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-18 - Publisher: Courier Corporation
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