Dire et mettre en scene la violence a Marseille au XVIIIe siecle

by Christophe Regina

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Extent: 423 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Gender & Sexuality

Series: POLEN - Pouvoirs, lettres, normes

Series volume number: 6

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(May 2017)

ISBN: 9782812460425

Price: $69.00

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Studying violence and gender is never easy; it is, however, the subject of this book devoted to eighteenth-century female violence in Marseilles. The source material consists of the legal archives of the seneschal’s court, of which nothing has been known until now.

  • By (author) Christophe Regina

Review - French Etudier la violence et le genre n'est jamais aise ; c'est pourtant l'objet de cet ouvrage consacre a l'etude de la violence feminine a Marseille au XVIII siecle. Les archives judiciaires de la senechaussee, jusqu'a ce jour ignorees, mettent en lumiere des recits de vie que les juges doivent interpreter. Le tribunal devient alors l'espace des discours qui instrumentalisent la justice au nom de l'honneur et de la defense de soi.