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

• Autore: Bakken Gordon Morris
• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 345.794/02523
• Soggetto topico: Trials (Murder) - California; Women - Legal status, laws, etc - California - History; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration - California - History; Women murderers - Social aspects - California
• Altri autori: FarringtonBrenda
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women Who Kill Men
• ISBN: 1-282-42397-5; 9786612423970; 0-8032-2657-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808925803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Law in the American West.