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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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MediAzioniThis article examines the processes of translation, adaptation and linguistic and cultural appropriation at work in the dual field of crime fiction and the magazine press, drawing on the example of Mystère-Magazine, the French version of Ellery Queen’s ...
Annabelle Marion
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Forensic Fiction and the Normalization of Surveillance
Nordicom Review, 2014 This essay investigates forensic fiction as a trend in televised crime fiction and argues that this trend or subgenre is particularly interesting if we are to understand how surveillance is portrayed in contemporary society.
Hausken Liv
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Sémiotique judiciaire : crime et signe
Cahiers de Narratologie, 2019 The science of crime, or forensic science, crystallized at around the same time as gothic and detective literature in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Marcel Danesi
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, 2010 [About the book]: Featuring over 500 entries written by an international team of scholars, The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction is an authoritative reference resource of up to date scholarship.
Haslam, Sara
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La influencia de la novela negra americana en tres novelas españolas de ficción criminal histórica [PDF]
, 2012 La novela histórica en la ficción criminal ha aumentado considerablemente su número de devotos y adeptos. Esta vertiente del género de la ficción criminal, que trata de recuperar algunos de los hechos históricos más importantes acontecidos en un país ...
Mezquita Fernández, María Antonia
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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The CSI Effect: Fact or Fiction? [PDF]
, 2016 The CSI effect has been a subject undergoing intense scrutiny in recent years. With the ever-increasing number of television shows, such as CSI and all of its spinoffs, that poorly represent the field of forensic science, there has also been a growing ...
Alejo, Kavita
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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