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Sexual Slander In Nineteenthcentury England Defamation In The Ecclesiastical Courts 18151855 Waddams

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Sexual Slander In Nineteenthcentury England Defamation In The Ecclesiastical Courts 18151855 Waddams instant download after payment.

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 16.26 MB

Author: Waddams, S. M.

ISBN: 9780802047502, 0802047505

Language: English

Year: 2009

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Sexual Slander In Nineteenthcentury England Defamation In The Ecclesiastical Courts 18151855 Waddams by Waddams, S. M. 9780802047502, 0802047505 instant download after payment.

'You
are a nasty bloody thundering whore,' one Gloucester woman said to
another in 1852. Most lawyers and historians are surprised to learn that
until 1855 language of this sort was punishable in the ecclesiastical
courts. In a study based on court records and lawyers' correspondence,
Stephen Waddams shows how the law worked not only in theory but in
practice. He concludes that, though this branch of the law had many
deficiencies, it also had certain merits, especially from the point of
view of women, who constituted 90 per cent of all complainants. The
evidence of the witnesses supplies fascinating details of day-to-day
events and of social attitudes from the words of participants, who were
mostly of a very modest social status, and not accustomed to recording
their views. Their evidence provides a valuable perspective not
generally available to historians. The study is of importance to legal
historians and to all who have an interest in nineteenth-century
England, especially to those concerned with the sexual reputation of
women.