movement from gaining further influence in order to create a more divided society and enhance their self-esteem. By divided, Berenson creates an image of a society based on gender stratification and the inequalities associated with this stratification. This obsession with maintaining, or rather rebuilding men's control over women, is brought forth in the trial. For example, Judge Albenel's fixation upon upholding his honor and integrity represents the need for men to assert their masculinity. This need to express control and suppress women infiltrates to the theories off many psychologists of the nineteenth and early twentieth century in France. These psy!
             chologists, along with the penny press, influenced
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