The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - Kate Morgan
A devastating work of non-fiction that reveals a hidden history of women, violence and the law. ’ A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they’ll be.’So went the proverb…
Specifikacia The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - Kate Morgan
A devastating work of non-fiction that reveals a hidden history of women, violence and the law. ’ A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they’ll be.’So went the proverb quoted by a prominent MP in the Houses of Parliament in 1853. His words – intended ironically in a debate about a rise in attacks on women – summed up the prevailing attitude of the day, in which violence against women was waved away as a part and parcel of modern living – a chilling seam of misogyny that had polluted both parliament and the law. But were things about to change?
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