02861nam 2200649Ia 450 991079237640332120230207213401.01-282-42397-597866124239700-8032-2657-8(CKB)2670000000008982(EBL)471725(OCoLC)592756344(SSID)ssj0000344564(PQKBManifestationID)11251024(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344564(PQKBWorkID)10323007(PQKB)11266345(MiAaPQ)EBC471725(MdBmJHUP)muse11929(EXLCZ)99267000000000898220090401d2009 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrWomen Who Kill MenCalifornia Courts, Gender, and the Press /Gordon Morris Bakken & Brenda FarringtonLincoln, Neb. :University of Nebraska Press,2009.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2012©2009.1 online resource (297 p.)Law in the American WestDescription based upon print version of record.0-8032-4544-0 0-8032-1361-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-262) and index.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.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.Law in the American West.Women murderersSocial aspectsCaliforniaSex discrimination in criminal justice administrationCaliforniaHistoryWomenLegal status, laws, etcCaliforniaHistoryTrials (Murder)CaliforniaWomen murderersSocial aspectsSex discrimination in criminal justice administrationHistory.WomenLegal status, laws, etc.History.Trials (Murder)345.794/02523Bakken Gordon Morris1477408Farrington Brenda1549055MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910792376403321Women Who Kill Men3852409UNINA