Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law - Hardcover
by Jessica Lake
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jessica LakeSeries:Cultural Lives of LawPublish date:12/16/2025Pages:246
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503635258ISBN-10:1503635252UPC:9781503635258Book Category:Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Gender & the Law, Legal History, ModernBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC2DA5K76Z
In 1788, Mary Smith was ruined and banished from "civilised" society when her neighbor accused her of carrying a bastard child. To silence the ruinous rumors and vindicate her name, Smith sued him for defamation. But in court, she faced the onerous burden, entrenched within English law of sexual slander, of proving "special damage." Smith should have lost her case, but her action set off a...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503635258ISBN-10:1503635252UPC:9781503635258Book Category:Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Gender & the Law, Legal History, ModernBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC2DA5K76Z
Jessica Lake is Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School, in the University of Melbourne. She is the author of The Face that Launched a Thousand Lawsuits (2016).
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