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

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

Bakken, Gordon Morris. (Author). Farrington, Brenda. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 6612423978
ISBN: 9786612423970
ISBN: 9781282423978
ISBN: 1282423975
ISBN: 0803245440
ISBN: 9780803245440
ISBN: 0803226578
ISBN: 9780803226579
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.