Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 272 pages, [8] pages of plates)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0803213611
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0803226578
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9780803213616
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9780803226579
Serie:
Law in the American West
Inhalt:
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their role in society were equally apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men examines eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder from 1870 to 1958
Inhalt:
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the sanest of them all? : the insanity defense in court and in the press -- Good riddance : justifiable homicides of enemy deviants -- Toward the new woman : feminine wiles on trial -- The haves and the have nots : women on trial during the Great Depression -- War women of the 1940s : evolutionary women in revolutionary times -- Celebrity on trial : Tinseltown tarnished
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780803213616
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0803213611
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bakken, Gordon Morris Women who kill men Lincoln, Neb : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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