The Gendered Geography of Violence in Bologna, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Muurling, Sanne; Pluskota, Marion

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“…They link this finding to overall patterns of spatial mobility, especially sociability, as well as perceptions of what were seen as appropriate spaces for women and men. 32 This brings me to the second distinctive feature of court records. Their power to bring lived practices to life-the aspect that many see as crucial to our understanding of gendered street use-does not solely lie in the opportunities they provide to chart people's actions in a spatial context.…”

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Gender in the Streets of the Premodern City

Heuvel

2018

Journal of Urban History

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It is often held that between 1600 and 1850, women gradually withdrew from the public sphere of the street and moved to the private sphere of the home. This powerful narrative, linked to theories of modernization, remains a prominent feature in urban history, despite important revisionist scholarship. In recent years, scholars from fields as diverse as art history, economic history, literary studies, and human geography have made important contributions to further our understanding of the gender dynamics in historical city streets. This essay for the first time brings together the findings on gender and premodern urban space from these different disciplines. Starting off from the latest insights, it furthermore proposes crucial new ways for studying the history of gender in streets.

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Gender in the Streets of the Premodern City

Heuvel

2018

Journal of Urban History

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“…10 More recently, the study by Marion Pluskota and Sanne Muurling on violence and gender in Bologna between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries indicates that men and women often committed similar forms of violence, though they used the urban space in which they committed their crimes differently. 11 Understanding the criminality of women and gender differences across time and space requires a nuanced approach that attends to the socioeconomic context and uncovers the opportunities for women to lead independent lives, defend themselves, and start lawsuits. 12…”

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Introduction to Crime and Gender in History

Heijden¹,

Pluskota²

2018

Journal of Social History

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This essay introduces the special section "Crime and Gender." The first part explains the disregard for women in crime history. The second part summarizes the state of research. The final part describes the aim and introduces the contributions to this special section."Why gender and crime?" asked Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne in the introduction to their edited volume on gender and crime in modern Europe (1999, reprint 2003). The answer was quite simple: until the 1980s crime historians focused their studies on the criminality of men because women were thought to be "exceptionally law-abiding," and when they committed crime, their crimes were treated with much more leniency by prosecutors and courts than those of men. 1 Social historians had begun to use judicial sources in order to write a history from below and to include common people in their analyses of crime, the working of the justice system, and social control. However, those studies did not include women's crimes or the issue of gender differences in crime. The pioneering study by John M. Beattie in 1975 on the criminality of women in eighteenth-century England was an important exception, and his work is in many ways still an example to historians writing on female criminality in the early modern period. 2 The neglect of women in crime history is related to the quantitative approaches taken by crime historians between the 1970s and 1990s. British, German, and French studies particularly dealt with questions regarding longterm trends and fluctuations in crime. Such studies focused on theories of civilization, violence, modernization, and urbanization that may explain long-term changes. 3 Historians such as Randolph Roth, Gerd Schwerhoff, Richard McMahon, and Joachim Eibach criticized the way that crime historians interpreted quantitative data on violence and suggested the need for a qualitative analysis and a better understanding of the social and legal context in order to understand changes in violent behavior. 4 Roth, for instance, examined a variety of sources to further the quantitative study of homicide and neonaticide. 5 Most methods used by crime historians estimate only the rate at which homicide came within the purview of the courts, leaving out the most common types of violence committed by men as well as women.

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Otherness: Guest and Pests

Wade

2024

Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication

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The Gendered Geography of Violence in Bologna, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

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Gender in the Streets of the Premodern City

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