Gender and Policing in Early Modern England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009305143)

This book traces the beginnings of a shift from one model of gendered power to another. Over the course of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, traditional practices of local government by heads of household began to be undermined by new legal ideas about what it meant to hold office. In London, this enabled the emergence of a new kind of officeholding and a new kind of policing, rooted in a fraternal culture of official masculinity. London officers arrested, searched, and sometimes assaulted people on the basis of gendered suspicions, especially poorer women. Gender and Policing in Early Modern England describes how a recognisable form of gendered policing emerged from practices of local government by patriarchs and addresses wider questions about the relationship between gender and the state.

Author: Jonah Miller
ISBN-10: 100930514X
ISBN-13: 9781009305143
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2023
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d