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The crimes of womanhood : defining femininity in a court of law / A. Cheree Carlson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carlson, A. Cheree, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Female offenders--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History.
- Female offenders.
- Women--United States--Social conditions--History.
- Women.
- Femininity in popular culture--United States--History.
- Femininity in popular culture.
- Femininity--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Femininity.
- Trials--United States--History.
- Trials.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Female offenders--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 189 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Narrative intersections in popular trials
- Framing madness in the sanity trial of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
- The mad doctors meet McNaughton : the battle for narrative supremacy in the trial of Mary Harris
- "True womanhood" and perfect madness : the sanity trial of Mary Todd Lincoln
- Womanhood as asset and liability : Lizzie Andrew Borden
- Bodies at the crossroads : the rise and fall of Madame Restell
- "You know it when you see it" : the rhetorical embodiment of race and gender in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-189) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252034015
- 0252034015
- OCLC:
- 233635014
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