Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-197) and index.

The problem illustrated : the landmark marital rape case of DPP v Morgan and its mixed significance for the men of law -- Introducing the criminal legal world of men : the importance of personal border control -- Hale, Blackstone and the character of men -- JS Mill, Stephen and the Victorian mentality -- The cast of men : the bounded man, the domestic monarch and the sexual master -- From male supremacy to sexual euphemism : good men trapped in their own assumptions -- The modernisation of men, or men assuming responsibility without taking responsibility -- The invisible men : why men of law cannot see the men of law -- The modern individual of criminal law -- Men, women and civil society : male civility in the twenty-first century.