Jennine Hurl-Eamon
Associate Professor
Oshawa Campus
B.A. (Western); M.A. (Queen's); Ph.D. (York).
905-721-3111 x 2077
jenninehurleamon@trentu.ca
Research interests: early Modern Europe,especially England, with a focus upon gender; crime and criminal justice; plebeian marriage and family life
Current research project: book - Women’s Roles in Eighteenth-Century Europe, forthcoming, Greenwood Press, 2010, and a monograph on military marriages in early modern London
Select publications: "'I Will Forgive You if the World Will': Wife Murder and Limits on Patriarchal Violence in London, 1690-1750" in
Violence, Politics and Gender in Early Modern England, ed. Joseph P. Ward (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 223-248.
“The fiction of female dependence and the makeshift economy of soldiers, sailors, and their wives in eighteenth-century London,” Labor History 4 (November 2008): 481-501.
With Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, “’Spiralling out of Control?’ Female Violence in Eighteenth-Century London and New Mexico,” in Assaulting the Past: Violence and Civilization in Historical Context, ed. Katherine D. Watson
(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 179-202.
“Insights into Plebeian Marriage: Soldiers, Sailors, and their Wives in the Old Bailey Proceedings,” London Journal 30, no. 1 (2005): 22-38.
Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680-1720 (Ohio State University
Press, 2005).
“The Westminster Impostors: Impersonating Law Enforcement in Early Eighteenth-Century London,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 38 (2005): 461-483.
“Policing Male Heterosexuality: The Reformation of Manners’ Campaign Against the Brothels in Westminster, 1680-1720,” Journal of Social History 37 (Summer 2004): 1017-1035.
“Domestic Violence Prosecuted: Women Binding Over their Husbands for Assault at Westminster Quarter Sessions, 1685-1720” Journal of Family History 26, no. 4 (October, 2001): 435-454.
“’She being big with child is likely to miscarry’: Pregnant Women Prosecuting Assault in London, 1685-1720,” London Journal 24, no. 2 (December 1999): 18-33.
