Introduction: opportunities and obstacles -- The vortex of speculation: picturing women investors -- Engendering finance: women and Wall Street -- Lambs to be fleeced and petticoated sharks: women and financial fraud -- Turning Wall Street inside out: Victoria Woodhull and the feminist debate on...

In Victorian society, women of the middle class were particularly vulnerable to white-collar crimes. Denied opportunities to earn their own living, single women were especially dependent on invested capital. Women, in fact, made up a significant portion of investors during the nineteenth...