| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Law in the American West
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Law in the American West.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 1940s : evolutionary women in revolutionary times -- Celebrity on trial : Tinseltown tarnished. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Trials (Murder) -- California.
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Trials (Murder) |
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California. |
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- California -- History.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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History. |
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Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California -- History.
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Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration. |
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Women murderers -- Social aspects -- California.
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Women murderers. |
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Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Farrington, Brenda.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bakken, Gordon Morris. Women who kill men. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009 9780803213616 (DLC) 2009014060 (OCoLC)317778318 |
| ISBN |
9780803226579 (electronic book) |
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0803226578 (electronic book) |
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9780803213616 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0803213611 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5001 T165 .0011 -2009 |
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