Women who kill men : California courts, gender, and the press /

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 t...

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主要作者: Bakken, Gordon Morris
其他作者: Farrington, Brenda
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press ©2009.
叢編:Law in the American West.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1dgn50j
書本目錄:
  • 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.