(Source: Routledge)
Routledge is publishing a new
book on lesbianism and criminal law in English and Welsh legal history.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book offers a comprehensive
examination of the ways in which the criminal justice system of England and
Wales has regulated, and failed or refused to regulate, lesbianism. It
identifies the overarching approach as one of silencing: lesbianism has not
only been ignored or regarded as unimaginable, but was deliberately excluded
from legal discourses. A series of case studies ranging from 1746 to 2013 from
parliamentary debates to individual prosecutions shed light on the complex
process of regulation through silencing. They illuminate its evolution over
three centuries and explore when and why it has been breached. The answers
Derry uncovers can be fully understood only in the context of surrounding
social and legal developments which are also considered. Lesbianism and
the Criminal Law makes an important contribution to the growing bodies
of literature on feminism, sexuality and the law and the legal history of
sexual offences.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Caroline Derry is Lecturer in Law
at the Open University, UK. She taught for fifteen years at London Metropolitan
University where she was a senior lecturer in Criminal and Evidence Law and
Gender and Law, and LLB course leader. She has been a visiting lecturer in
Criminal Law at SOAS and at Paris Descartes. She is a co-author of Complete
Criminal Law (OUP, 2018) and Gender and Law (Routledge,
2018).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Mary/Charles Hamilton:
Eighteenth-Century Female Husband Prosecutions
Louise Mourey and the ‘Maiden
Tribute of Modern Babylon’
‘Gross Indecency Between
Females’: The 1921 Parliamentary Debates
Victor/Valerie Barker: Sexology
and Challenges to Silencing
The Wolfenden Report: A Shift in
Silencing
Allen: Sexual Offences
Prosecutions in the Late Twentieth Century
McNally: After the Sexual
Offences Act 2003
Conclusion
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