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

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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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bakken, Gordon Morris
Otros Autores: Farrington, Brenda
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Colección:Law in the American West.
Temas:
Trials (Murder) > California.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > California > History.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration > California > History.
Women murderers > Social aspects > California.
Procès (Meurtre) > Californie.
Discrimination sexuelle dans l'administration de la justice pénale > Californie > Histoire.
Meurtrières > Aspect social > Californie.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
Trials (Murder)
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
California
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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