Article: No pedestals: women and violence in late nineteenth-century Ireland.

In English courts in the nineteenth century women were at a marked disadvantage. Officials accepted the image of women as delicate creatures who required the protection and supervision of men. Women who failed to match the image were usually denied legal protection.(1) However, the position of women in late nineteenth-century Irish courts differed significantly. Given the overwhelming power of the Roman Catholic church and the conservative nature of Irish peasant society it might be expected that Irish women suffered the most extreme oppression.(2) Certainly the rhetoric of the Catholic clergy was even more rigid than that of the most Victorian thinkers in terms of the ...

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