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Women who kill men : California courts, gender, and the press / Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bakken, Gordon Morris.
- Series:
- Law in the American West.
- Law in the American West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Murder)--California.
- Trials (Murder).
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--California--History.
- Women.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--California--History.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Women murderers--Social aspects--California.
- Women murderers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612423970
- 9781282423978
- 1282423975
- 9780803226579
- 0803226578
- OCLC:
- 592756344
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