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Gender and Policing in Early Modern England

Author: Jonah Miller   Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
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Traces the history of gendered policing back to its emergence from the early modern patriarchal household.

This new volume traces the history of gendered policing back to its emergence from the patriarchal household. It describes how a recognisable form of gendered policing emerged from practices of local government by patriarchs.

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Traces the history of gendered policing back to its emergence from the early modern patriarchal household.

This new volume traces the history of gendered policing back to its emergence from the patriarchal household. It describes how a recognisable form of gendered policing emerged from practices of local government by patriarchs.

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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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
10th April 2025
Pages
265
ISBN
9781009305198

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