Gender and Justice: Violence, Intimacy, and Community in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Problematizing Crimes of Passion 1 1 La Vie Intime 18 2 Material and Symbolic Household Management 56 3 Networks of Knowledge 93 4 Reciprocity and Retribution 128 5 Local Knowledge and State Power 156 6 Reading and Writing Stories of Intimate Violence 186 Conclusion: “Men Who Kill and Women Who Vote” 209 Notes 219 Bibliography 247 Index 261 This page intentionally left blank ...