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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808925803321

Autore

Bakken Gordon Morris

Titolo

Women who kill men : California courts, gender, and the press / / Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-42397-5

9786612423970

0-8032-2657-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Law in the American West

Altri autori (Persone)

FarringtonBrenda

Disciplina

345.794/02523

Soggetti

Trials (Murder) - California

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - California - History

Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration - California - History

Women murderers - Social aspects - California

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 1940's : evolutionary women in revolutionary times -- Celebrity on trial : Tinseltown tarnished.

Sommario/riassunto

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.