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Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siècle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the ways in which issues of gender were central to the most important cultural transformations of the period.

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"Well-written, informed by feminist and literary theory, and ambitious, Breaking the Codes is a strong entry in the new cultural historiography of crime and criminal justice." -- Social History

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/1996
      ISBN13: 9780804726931, 978-0804726931
      ISBN10: 0804726930
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      Crime and criminology Gender studies, gender groups

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siècle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the ways in which issues of gender were central to the most important cultural transformations of the period.

      Trade Review
      "Well-written, informed by feminist and literary theory, and ambitious, Breaking the Codes is a strong entry in the new cultural historiography of crime and criminal justice." -- Social History

      Table of Contents
      CONTENTS 1 2 3 4 5

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