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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One. She levelled them all three -- Chapter Two. An "industrious woman" and a "ruined" child -- Chapter Three. As agreeable as neighbours ought to be -- Chapter Four. A sad case of domestic infelicity -- Chapter Five. She did not ask for a character -- Chapter Six. Clipping in the clubroom -- Chapter Seven. Previous to my being ravished -- Chapter Eight. A sensation in court -- Afterword -- Appendix. Tabulation of all cases -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Books reviewed in this article:Karen Dubinsky, The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara FallsKathleen Anne McHugh, American Domesticity: From How‐to Manual to Hollywood MelodramaLeila J. Rupp, A Desired Past: A Short History of Same‐Sex Love in AmericaJohn C. Spurlock and Cynthia A. Magistro, New and Improved: The Transformation of American Women's Emotional CultureJessica Weiss, To Have and To Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom and Social Change

Historically speaking, women's purposeful activities have contributed significantly to the uses and meanings of urban spaces and have been a key part of the texture of social and economic relationships in town and city as well as the countryside. A good deal of the scholarship which underpins this conclusion has called for the detailed study of particular historical situations: the domestic economy in industrializing Montreal, dairying in mid-twentieth-century Denmark, gossip in the back yards and closes of inter-war Manchester. Methods of inquiry such as oral history or the close examination of census data necessarily lend themselves to the case study approach. This kind of detailed investigation has encouraged re-examination of some of the overarching meta-narratives of historical change more characteristic of earlier historical studies of women and work, notably that of Tilly and Scott.

Lawrence Stone, Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England, 1680–1857A. James Hammerton, Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth‐Century Married LifeDiana Jeater, Marriage, Perversion and Power: The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1894–1930Karen Dubinsky, Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880–1928

11. The trial of Madame Fahmy: Orientalism, violence, sexual perversity and the fear of miscegenation12. 'The irons of their fetters have eaten into their souls': nineteenth-century feminist strategies to get our bodies onto the political agenda; Selected Bibliography; Index.

D'Cruze and Jackson introduce students to key debates and trends in the study of women's relationship to the criminal justice system in England over the last four centuries. The areas explored include attitudes towards murder and infanticide, sexual violence, prostitution, the 'girl delinquent', and women's experience of penal regimes.

Oddfellows' lodges in mid-nineteenth-century Lancaster and Preston offer fresh perspectives on affiliated friendly societies. These societies combined fraternal good fellowship with a hierarchical organization which operated on the assumption that members were breadwinners supporting dependants in nuclear family households. Despite the skilled or artisan occupational status of many oddfellows, their domestic economies often relied on more than one wage and complex household structures. Since oddfellows' households also clustered in certain neighbourhoods, social associations established by lodge membership overlapped with local networks. By considering these lodges less as bounded institutional entities and more as focuses for intersecting social networks where mores of respectablity and social identity were worked out, relations of gender and community as well as class, can be brought to bear on a historical appreciation of this topic.