Gender and Policing in Early Modern England

Jonah Miller (University of Cambridge)

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English

Cambridge University Press
15 June 2023

British & Irish history; Social & cultural history; Gender studies, gender groups; Police & security services; Regional government; Gender & the law; Offences against the person

Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

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.

By: Jonah Miller (University of Cambridge)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 545g
ISBN: 9781009305143
ISBN 10: 100930514X
Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 15 June 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonah Miller is a Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge.