Garthine Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3991001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garthine Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Garthine |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4093-8592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Imagining the Unimaginable
This article explores the ways in which parricide was comprehended in England and Wales, c.1600–1760, and shows that while some parallels exist with modern explanatory models of parricide offenders, they had very different meanings in the early modern context. While both lunacy and the cruelty of parents were understood as possible contexts for parricide, neither were common. The dominant explanation was the gratuitous violence of a selfish indiv…
Rape, Acquittal and Culpability in Popular Crime Reports in England, c.1670-c.1750
Studies of rape between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries invariably note that most rape trials end in acquittal. Since the 1970s, when feminist activism and criticism put rape on the political, social and academic agenda, the explanation for this apparently transhistorical phenomenon has been related to misogyny or, at least, a patriarchal sexual double standard. Rape seemed to have a long, unchanging history in which rape law, the crimin…
Everyman or a Monster? The Rapist in Early Modern England, c.1600-1750
The focus of this article is on responses to men who raped in early modern England and Wales. Most historical writing on sexual violence and rape in the period has focused on the women and children who were subjected to such abuse rather than upon the perpetrators. The rapist, when he appears, is presented at some times as everyman and at others a monster. The article explores what may be at stake in such a dichotomous view and its unresolved ten…
Gender, Change and Periodisation
This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of Gender and History by revisiting and reasserting the potential of women's history and gender history both to complicate and, more fundamentally, to revise received narratives of change.As Ludmilla Jordanova has observed, periodisation hinges on the privileging of particular vantage points and the selection of 'symbolic markers' according to 'the weight given to distinct fields of human activity', and…
Rereading Rape and Sexual Violence in Early Modern England
In the early modern period, the inapplicability of certain discourses of sex and violence impeded allegations of rape whilst facilitating denials of rape. Women who asserted rape (and men who spoke out in support) engendered those same discourses which incriminated them with their own semantic and expressive intent. Male violence was stressed and feminine agency discursively denied in these accounts. Sex was largely occluded, except when it appea…
Clandestine Marriage in England 1500-1850
Journal Article Clandestine Marriage in England 1500–1850 Get access Outhwaite R.B., Clandestine Marriage in England 1500–1850. London and Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1995. viii, 196 pp. $40.00. Garthine Walker Garthine Walker University of Wales Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 81–82, https://doi.org/10.2307/846019 Pu…
Witchcraft and history
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: studies in culture and belief JONATHAN BARRY, MARIANNE HESTER & GARETH ROBERTS (Eds), 1996 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiv + 368 pp., ISBN 0-521-55224-9 hardback £40.00, ISBN 0-521-63875-5 paperback £15.00
New-born child murder
Gender, sex and subordination in england, 1500-1800
Expanding the Boundaries of Female Honour in Early Modern England
Within the historiography of gender and reputation in early modern Europe, female and male honour are usually presented as being incommensurable; yet they are constantly compared. Female honour has been discussed primarily in the context of sexual reputation. Male honour is commonly imagined as ‘more complex’, involving matters of deference, physical prowess, economic and professional competence and die avoidance of public ridicule. Thus the pred…
Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England
Journal Article Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England Get access Kermode Jenny Walker Garthine, eds., Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. vii, 216 pp. $17.95 (paper); $39.95 (cloth). Kathryn Brammal Kathryn Brammal Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 40, Issue 3, …
Irish Nationalism and the Uses of History
Irish Nationalism and the Uses of History Get access Graham Walker Graham Walker University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 126, Issue 1, February 1990, Pages 203–214, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/126.1.203 Published: 01 February 1990
Rereading Rape and Sexual Violence in Early Modern England
In the early modern period, the inapplicability of certain discourses of sex and violence impeded allegations of rape whilst facilitating denials of rape. Women who asserted rape (and men who spoke out in support) engendered those same discourses which incriminated them with their own semantic and expressive intent. Male violence was stressed and feminine agency discursively denied in these accounts. Sex was largely occluded, except when it appea…
Everyman or a Monster? The Rapist in Early Modern England, c.1600-1750
The focus of this article is on responses to men who raped in early modern England and Wales. Most historical writing on sexual violence and rape in the period has focused on the women and children who were subjected to such abuse rather than upon the perpetrators. The rapist, when he appears, is presented at some times as everyman and at others a monster. The article explores what may be at stake in such a dichotomous view and its unresolved ten…
Expanding the Boundaries of Female Honour in Early Modern England
Within the historiography of gender and reputation in early modern Europe, female and male honour are usually presented as being incommensurable; yet they are constantly compared. Female honour has been discussed primarily in the context of sexual reputation. Male honour is commonly imagined as ‘more complex’, involving matters of deference, physical prowess, economic and professional competence and die avoidance of public ridicule. Thus the pred…
Gender, Change and Periodisation
This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of Gender and History by revisiting and reasserting the potential of women's history and gender history both to complicate and, more fundamentally, to revise received narratives of change.As Ludmilla Jordanova has observed, periodisation hinges on the privileging of particular vantage points and the selection of 'symbolic markers' according to 'the weight given to distinct fields of human activity', and…
Irish Nationalism and the Uses of History
Irish Nationalism and the Uses of History Get access Graham Walker Graham Walker University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 126, Issue 1, February 1990, Pages 203–214, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/126.1.203 Published: 01 February 1990
Expanding the Boundaries of Female Honour in Early Modern England
Within the historiography of gender and reputation in early modern Europe, female and male honour are usually presented as being incommensurable; yet they are constantly compared. Female honour has been discussed primarily in the context of sexual reputation. Male honour is commonly imagined as ‘more complex’, involving matters of deference, physical prowess, economic and professional competence and die avoidance of public ridicule. Thus the pred…
Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England
Journal Article Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England Get access Kermode Jenny Walker Garthine, eds., Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. vii, 216 pp. $17.95 (paper); $39.95 (cloth). Kathryn Brammal Kathryn Brammal Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 40, Issue 3, …
Gender, sex and subordination in england, 1500-1800
Rereading Rape and Sexual Violence in Early Modern England
In the early modern period, the inapplicability of certain discourses of sex and violence impeded allegations of rape whilst facilitating denials of rape. Women who asserted rape (and men who spoke out in support) engendered those same discourses which incriminated them with their own semantic and expressive intent. Male violence was stressed and feminine agency discursively denied in these accounts. Sex was largely occluded, except when it appea…
Clandestine Marriage in England 1500-1850
Journal Article Clandestine Marriage in England 1500–1850 Get access Outhwaite R.B., Clandestine Marriage in England 1500–1850. London and Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1995. viii, 196 pp. $40.00. Garthine Walker Garthine Walker University of Wales Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 81–82, https://doi.org/10.2307/846019 Pu…
Witchcraft and history
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: studies in culture and belief JONATHAN BARRY, MARIANNE HESTER & GARETH ROBERTS (Eds), 1996 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiv + 368 pp., ISBN 0-521-55224-9 hardback £40.00, ISBN 0-521-63875-5 paperback £15.00
New-born child murder
Gender, Change and Periodisation
This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of Gender and History by revisiting and reasserting the potential of women's history and gender history both to complicate and, more fundamentally, to revise received narratives of change.As Ludmilla Jordanova has observed, periodisation hinges on the privileging of particular vantage points and the selection of 'symbolic markers' according to 'the weight given to distinct fields of human activity', and…
Rape, Acquittal and Culpability in Popular Crime Reports in England, c.1670-c.1750
Studies of rape between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries invariably note that most rape trials end in acquittal. Since the 1970s, when feminist activism and criticism put rape on the political, social and academic agenda, the explanation for this apparently transhistorical phenomenon has been related to misogyny or, at least, a patriarchal sexual double standard. Rape seemed to have a long, unchanging history in which rape law, the crimin…
Everyman or a Monster? The Rapist in Early Modern England, c.1600-1750
The focus of this article is on responses to men who raped in early modern England and Wales. Most historical writing on sexual violence and rape in the period has focused on the women and children who were subjected to such abuse rather than upon the perpetrators. The rapist, when he appears, is presented at some times as everyman and at others a monster. The article explores what may be at stake in such a dichotomous view and its unresolved ten…
Imagining the Unimaginable
This article explores the ways in which parricide was comprehended in England and Wales, c.1600–1760, and shows that while some parallels exist with modern explanatory models of parricide offenders, they had very different meanings in the early modern context. While both lunacy and the cruelty of parents were understood as possible contexts for parricide, neither were common. The dominant explanation was the gratuitous violence of a selfish indiv…
Sociology (12 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (7 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)