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1 online resource (189 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : womanhood on trial -- 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 -- Conclusion : womanhood as narrative. |
| Summary |
Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America. A. Cheree Carlson analyzes the colorful rhetorical strategies employed by lawyers and reporters in the trials of several women of varying historical stature, from the insanity trials of Mary Todd Lincoln and Lizzie Borden's trial for the brutal slaying of her father and stepmother, to lesser-known trials involving insanity, infidelity, murder, abortion, and interracial marriage. Carlson reveals clearly just how narrow was the line that women had to walk, since the same womanly virtues that were expected of them--passivity, frailty, and purity--could be turned against them at any time. --From publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Female offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History.
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Female offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Female offenders. |
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Femininity in popular culture -- United States -- History.
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Femininity in popular culture. |
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Femininity -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Femininity. |
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Social aspects. |
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Trials -- United States -- History.
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Trials. |
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Carlson, A. Cheree, 1957- Crimes of womanhood. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008027211 |
| ISBN |
9780252090769 (electronic book) |
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0252090764 (electronic book) |
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1283043963 |
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9781283043960 |
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0252034015 |
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9780252034015 |
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