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Contents:

	Introduction
	Chapter 1     Domestic Violence
	Chapter 2     Sexual Abuse
	Chapter 3     Libel & Slander
	Chapter 4     Abduction & Clandestine Marriage
	Chapter 5     The Smart of the Lash
	Chapter 6     Burned Alive
	Chapter 7     An Exiled World
	Chapter 8     At the Mercy of the Mob
	Chapter 9     Locked in the Cage
	Chapter 10     Hot Iron 6 Cold Steel
	Chapter 11     Hanged by the 'Bloody Code'
	Chapter 12     Male Impersonators Female Actors
	Chapter 13     Seen But Not Heard
	Chapter 14     Gracing the Stool
	Chapter 15     Religious Belief: Persecution & Punishment
	Chapter 16     Suffer a Witch
	Chapter 17     Military Wives Camp Followers
	Chapter 18     The Morality Police
	Chapter 19     The 'Whipping Toms'
	Chapter 20     Growing Distaste 6 Abolition
	Apendix A
	Apendix B
	Apendix C
	Apendix D
	Apendix E
	Apendix F
	Apendix G
	Apendix H
	Apendix I     Benefit of Clergy
	Apendix J     Relative Value of Money
	Bibliography
	Notes

Descirpition: »Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from those that had pertained for centuries. Girls were largely barred from education – only around 14% of women could read and write by 1700 - and the few educated women were not permitted to enter the professions.
The social turbulence of the first half of the seventeenth century afforded women new opportunities and new religious freedoms and women were attracted into the many new sects where they were afforded a voice in preaching and teaching.
This reaction often found expression in the violent and brutal treatment of women who were seen to have stepped out of line, whether legally, socially or domestically. Often beaten and abused at home by husbands exercising their legal right, they were whipped, branded, exiled and burnt alive by the courts, from which their sex had no recourse to protection, justice or restitution.
This work records the many kinds of violent physical and verbal abuse perpetrated against women in Britain and her colonies, both domestically and under the law, during two centuries when huge strides in human knowledge and civilisation were being made in every other sphere of human activity.« (Source: Pen and Sword)

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