Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-De-Siècle Paris - Paperback

by Ann-Louise Shapiro (Author)

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