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Sex & secrets : crimes involving Australian women since 1880 / Judith A. Allen.

By: Publication details: Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990.Description: xii, 290 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0195548396 (pbk.) :
Other title:
  • Sex and secrets
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.150994 20
LOC classification:
  • HV6153.A8 A66 1990
  • HV6250.W65 A44 1990
Online resources:
Contents:
Includes index.
Review: "Judith A. Allen's study of crimes involving Australian women since 1880 is based primarily on previously unpublished archival documents from criminal and divorce courts, coroner's offices, prisons and child welfare institutions. These records show that there has been a steady streaming of offenders and complainants out of criminal justice and into alternative agencies. Infanticide, prostitution, and sexual and other assaults involving women have been, it appears, much more prevalent than court records show. Allen argues that it is because these practices are connected with sexual relationships between men and women that they have attracted little official attention from police and other criminal justice agencies. These crimes involving women and their sexual relationships with men have been shrouded in a secrecy which has not only created a false perception of their incidence but has disguised their significance in the processes of social change which have occurred over the last century. Allen redresses the balance by providing both a detailed study of criminal acts involving women since 1880 and a feminist analysis of their social and political significance. This study is a valuable addition to the history of the sexes, in which a number of developments are of recurring importance: the rapid drop in the birthrate; increasing rates of divorce and separation; the widening of paid work options for women; and the 'sexualization' of culture during the twentieth century." -- BOOK JACKET./usr/bin/ksh @
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 364.150994 ALL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 66961

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 273-285.

Includes index.

Includes index.

"Judith A. Allen's study of crimes involving Australian women since 1880 is based primarily on previously unpublished archival documents from criminal and divorce courts, coroner's offices, prisons and child welfare institutions. These records show that there has been a steady streaming of offenders and complainants out of criminal justice and into alternative agencies. Infanticide, prostitution, and sexual and other assaults involving women have been, it appears, much more prevalent than court records show. Allen argues that it is because these practices are connected with sexual relationships between men and women that they have attracted little official attention from police and other criminal justice agencies. These crimes involving women and their sexual relationships with men have been shrouded in a secrecy which has not only created a false perception of their incidence but has disguised their significance in the processes of social change which have occurred over the last century. Allen redresses the balance by providing both a detailed study of criminal acts involving women since 1880 and a feminist analysis of their social and political significance. This study is a valuable addition to the history of the sexes, in which a number of developments are of recurring importance: the rapid drop in the birthrate; increasing rates of divorce and separation; the widening of paid work options for women; and the 'sexualization' of culture during the twentieth century." -- BOOK JACKET./usr/bin/ksh @

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