Issue 8:2 (Summer 2012) of
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is devoted to the topic
Law and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England. The guest editors are Julia McCord Chavez and Katherine Gilbert. Among the contributions are
Policing Sexual Morality: Percy Shelley and the Expansive Scope of the Parens Patriae in the Law of Custody of Children, by
Danaya C. Wright, University of Florida Law.