Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris.

1997 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 1500
Author(s):  
Jill Harsin ◽  
Ann-Louise Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Female Criminality ◽  
Fin De Siècle

scholarly journals Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

1970 ◽  
pp. 69-71
Author(s):  
Christopher E. Forth
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Female Criminality ◽  
Sexual Murder ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
History Of

Ann-Louise Shapiro's Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris is a compelling and innovative cultural history of the problem of the female criminal in France at the turn of the century. Shapiro's work is also refreshingly distinct from other histories of this period in that it brings a sense of theoretical rigor to her primary argument that the female criminal was "a code that condensed, and thus obscured, other concerns" (p. 4). In this sense Shapiro's work is reminiscent of Mary Louise Roberts' Civilization Without Sexes: Restructuring Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927 (Chicago, 1994) and Maria Tatar's Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (Princeton, 1995), recent works which address historical responses to the problem of dangerous femininity.

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