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Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900 Ashley Baggett
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900
Ashley Baggett
Uncovers the voices of abused women who utilized the legal system in New Orleans to address their grievances from the antebellum era to the end of the nineteenth century. Poring over 26,000 records, Baggett analyses 421 criminal cases involving intimate partner violence, revealing a significant demand among women, the community, and the courts for reform in the postbellum decades.
224 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 1, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781496815217 |
| Publishers | University Press of Mississippi |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 498 g |