Daniel J R Grey
Biographic Data
| ID | 974903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel J R Grey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel J R |
| FAMILY NAME | Grey |
| SIGNATURE | GREY D J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hertfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6312-1331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender and Segregation
This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregation from an intersectional perspective, one that fully integrates gender alongside other factors and dynamics in order to fully understand the differences and similarities in segregation between different regional and temporal contexts. The second is th…
Histories of Sexual Violence in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin America
Objective/Context: This article explains why current events demand the exploration of histories of sexual violence, setting the four pieces that comprise this special issue in their broader historiographical and social context. Despite the important body of work that has been produced to date exploring issues related to gender and sexuality in this region during the nineteenth and twentieth century, sexual violence remains severely understudied. …
It is impossible to judge the extent to which the crime is prevalent
This article examines colonial debates over infanticide in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India, including the question of whether new legislation should be introduced to target the crime. Such debates were complicated by Britain’s colonial obsession with specifically eradicating female infanticide, seen as a core element of the so-called ‘civilizing mission’, and the reluctance of authorities to acknowledge that in many cases of In…
Judgment in the Victorian Age
"This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed"
Rethinking Gender and Justice in South Asia, 1772–2013
Amartya Sen has compellingly argued in The Idea of Justice that far from being a value-neutral term, ‘justice’ is a relative one, with competing claims made on it by different parties in any given context. Does this mean that\njustice is an empty concept, bereft of any meaning or devoid of self explanatory power? This special issue seeks to find answers to this question. ‘Justice’ came to embrace myriad meanings for the British Empire. Enlightenm…
Importing Gendered Legal Reasoning from England
The informal criminal defence in India of ‘injured masculine honour’ was steadily narrowed over the course of the nineteenth century. Yet this remained a popular – and extremely effective – appeal to the judiciary. This article argues that such regular and successful appeals by husbands in India are best understood by examining how lethal domestic violence was represented in England, and how this cultural baggage was transferred to Indian courts …
Agonised Weeping’
Newspaper reports of actual or suspected infanticide were by no means unusual in early twentieth-century England, yet few of these ever resulted in conviction on the capital charge. This article traces the ways in which both local and national newspapers reported on one of the rare cases which a woman was sentenced to death for the murder of her baby: the 1909 trial of Alice Cleaver at the Central Criminal Court. Despite clear evidence of her gui…
Murder, Mental Illness, and the Question of Nursing 'Character' in Early Twentieth Century England
In May 1918, the Sydenham Infant Welfare Centre in south-east London hired a new senior nurse, Eva Grace Thompson. With fourteen years’ experience in the profession and a certificate from University College Hospital, and having worked in both children’s and adult hospitals, she seemed ideal for this demanding post at a residential paediatric institution. Within a few days of her arrival, however, a disturbing pattern of patient injuries appeared.…
Gender and Radical Politics in India
Gender and Radical Politics in India: Magic Moments of Naxalbari (1967–1975). By Mallarika Sinha Roy." Cultural and Social History, 11(1), pp. 136–137
‘What woman is safe…?’
Few scholars have investigated infanticide in modern Britain. Still less work has explored the connection between feminist analyses of this issue during the 1870s—a time when child homicide was perceived as endemic—and its relationship to other, more well-known campaigns by the women's movement that also focused on the double standard of sexual morality as embodied by law. This article re-evaluates the response to judicial treatment of infanticid…
Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
JULIA LAITE, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 320 pp., ISBN 9780230230545 (hbk) (£55.00) Despite the longstanding fascination of Victorian scholars with nineteenth-century approaches to the ‘
Liable to Very Gross Abuse’
Journal Article ‘Liable to Very Gross Abuse’: Murder, Moral Panic and Cultural Fears over Infant Life Insurance, 1875–1914 Get access Daniel J.R. Grey Daniel J.R. Grey 1Wolfson College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, Issue 1, 1 March 2013, Pages 54–71, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2012.740847 Published: 01 March 2013
Creating the ‘Problem Hindu’
Rethinking the History of Feminism
With the British Women's Liberation Movement celebrating its 40th anniversary this spring, we have seen a proliferation of thinking about the history of feminism: reflections, reminiscences and nos
Women's Policy Networks and the Infanticide Act 1922
This article examines the reason for the passage of the 1922 Infanticide Act, arguing that it owes much to the influence and work of women's policy networks. Historians have disagreed as to why the Act was passed with relative suddenness in the early 1920s, at a time when infanticide was generally considered a much less pressing social issue than it had been in Victorian England. Moreover, several Bills brought between 1908 and 1913 proposing tha…
Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
JULIA LAITE, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 320 pp., ISBN 9780230230545 (hbk) (£55.00) Despite the longstanding fascination of Victorian scholars with nineteenth-century approaches to the ‘
Women's Policy Networks and the Infanticide Act 1922
This article examines the reason for the passage of the 1922 Infanticide Act, arguing that it owes much to the influence and work of women's policy networks. Historians have disagreed as to why the Act was passed with relative suddenness in the early 1920s, at a time when infanticide was generally considered a much less pressing social issue than it had been in Victorian England. Moreover, several Bills brought between 1908 and 1913 proposing tha…
Importing Gendered Legal Reasoning from England
The informal criminal defence in India of ‘injured masculine honour’ was steadily narrowed over the course of the nineteenth century. Yet this remained a popular – and extremely effective – appeal to the judiciary. This article argues that such regular and successful appeals by husbands in India are best understood by examining how lethal domestic violence was represented in England, and how this cultural baggage was transferred to Indian courts …
Agonised Weeping’
Newspaper reports of actual or suspected infanticide were by no means unusual in early twentieth-century England, yet few of these ever resulted in conviction on the capital charge. This article traces the ways in which both local and national newspapers reported on one of the rare cases which a woman was sentenced to death for the murder of her baby: the 1909 trial of Alice Cleaver at the Central Criminal Court. Despite clear evidence of her gui…
Liable to Very Gross Abuse’
Journal Article ‘Liable to Very Gross Abuse’: Murder, Moral Panic and Cultural Fears over Infant Life Insurance, 1875–1914 Get access Daniel J.R. Grey Daniel J.R. Grey 1Wolfson College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, Issue 1, 1 March 2013, Pages 54–71, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2012.740847 Published: 01 March 2013
Rethinking Gender and Justice in South Asia, 1772–2013
Amartya Sen has compellingly argued in The Idea of Justice that far from being a value-neutral term, ‘justice’ is a relative one, with competing claims made on it by different parties in any given context. Does this mean that\njustice is an empty concept, bereft of any meaning or devoid of self explanatory power? This special issue seeks to find answers to this question. ‘Justice’ came to embrace myriad meanings for the British Empire. Enlightenm…
Creating the ‘Problem Hindu’
Rethinking the History of Feminism
With the British Women's Liberation Movement celebrating its 40th anniversary this spring, we have seen a proliferation of thinking about the history of feminism: reflections, reminiscences and nos
Rethinking the History of Feminism
With the British Women's Liberation Movement celebrating its 40th anniversary this spring, we have seen a proliferation of thinking about the history of feminism: reflections, reminiscences and nos
Women's Policy Networks and the Infanticide Act 1922
This article examines the reason for the passage of the 1922 Infanticide Act, arguing that it owes much to the influence and work of women's policy networks. Historians have disagreed as to why the Act was passed with relative suddenness in the early 1920s, at a time when infanticide was generally considered a much less pressing social issue than it had been in Victorian England. Moreover, several Bills brought between 1908 and 1913 proposing tha…
‘What woman is safe…?’
Few scholars have investigated infanticide in modern Britain. Still less work has explored the connection between feminist analyses of this issue during the 1870s—a time when child homicide was perceived as endemic—and its relationship to other, more well-known campaigns by the women's movement that also focused on the double standard of sexual morality as embodied by law. This article re-evaluates the response to judicial treatment of infanticid…
Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
JULIA LAITE, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 320 pp., ISBN 9780230230545 (hbk) (£55.00) Despite the longstanding fascination of Victorian scholars with nineteenth-century approaches to the ‘
Liable to Very Gross Abuse’
Journal Article ‘Liable to Very Gross Abuse’: Murder, Moral Panic and Cultural Fears over Infant Life Insurance, 1875–1914 Get access Daniel J.R. Grey Daniel J.R. Grey 1Wolfson College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, Issue 1, 1 March 2013, Pages 54–71, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2012.740847 Published: 01 March 2013
Creating the ‘Problem Hindu’
Gender and Radical Politics in India
Gender and Radical Politics in India: Magic Moments of Naxalbari (1967–1975). By Mallarika Sinha Roy." Cultural and Social History, 11(1), pp. 136–137
Agonised Weeping’
Newspaper reports of actual or suspected infanticide were by no means unusual in early twentieth-century England, yet few of these ever resulted in conviction on the capital charge. This article traces the ways in which both local and national newspapers reported on one of the rare cases which a woman was sentenced to death for the murder of her baby: the 1909 trial of Alice Cleaver at the Central Criminal Court. Despite clear evidence of her gui…
Murder, Mental Illness, and the Question of Nursing 'Character' in Early Twentieth Century England
In May 1918, the Sydenham Infant Welfare Centre in south-east London hired a new senior nurse, Eva Grace Thompson. With fourteen years’ experience in the profession and a certificate from University College Hospital, and having worked in both children’s and adult hospitals, she seemed ideal for this demanding post at a residential paediatric institution. Within a few days of her arrival, however, a disturbing pattern of patient injuries appeared.…
Rethinking Gender and Justice in South Asia, 1772–2013
Amartya Sen has compellingly argued in The Idea of Justice that far from being a value-neutral term, ‘justice’ is a relative one, with competing claims made on it by different parties in any given context. Does this mean that\njustice is an empty concept, bereft of any meaning or devoid of self explanatory power? This special issue seeks to find answers to this question. ‘Justice’ came to embrace myriad meanings for the British Empire. Enlightenm…
Importing Gendered Legal Reasoning from England
The informal criminal defence in India of ‘injured masculine honour’ was steadily narrowed over the course of the nineteenth century. Yet this remained a popular – and extremely effective – appeal to the judiciary. This article argues that such regular and successful appeals by husbands in India are best understood by examining how lethal domestic violence was represented in England, and how this cultural baggage was transferred to Indian courts …
Judgment in the Victorian Age
"This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed"
It is impossible to judge the extent to which the crime is prevalent
This article examines colonial debates over infanticide in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India, including the question of whether new legislation should be introduced to target the crime. Such debates were complicated by Britain’s colonial obsession with specifically eradicating female infanticide, seen as a core element of the so-called ‘civilizing mission’, and the reluctance of authorities to acknowledge that in many cases of In…
Histories of Sexual Violence in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin America
Objective/Context: This article explains why current events demand the exploration of histories of sexual violence, setting the four pieces that comprise this special issue in their broader historiographical and social context. Despite the important body of work that has been produced to date exploring issues related to gender and sexuality in this region during the nineteenth and twentieth century, sexual violence remains severely understudied. …
Gender and Segregation
This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregation from an intersectional perspective, one that fully integrates gender alongside other factors and dynamics in order to fully understand the differences and similarities in segregation between different regional and temporal contexts. The second is th…
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