Rape and "consent to force" : legal doctrine and social context in Victorian Britain
This thesis is an exercise in the historical use of legal analysis. It illuminates the social construction of gender in an era of changing social mores, by relating rape doctrines to demographic, economic, social, and cultural changes. Changes in the rape law of early Industrial Britain (1800-1860)...
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University of Saskatchewan
2007
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| Online Access: | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-04302007-134756/ |