Gender and punishment in Ireland : Women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64 /

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In the decades after Irish independence, 292 women were prosecuted for murder, facing the threat of conviction and death sentencing. Within a rising atmosphere of hostility to women, moral rigidity, sexual repression and Catholic Church control, this book explores the meanings and responses to women...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Black, Lynsey (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women murderers.
Capital punishment.
Meurtrieres > Irlande > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Peine de mort > Irlande > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Women murderers > Ireland > History > 20th century.
Capital punishment > Ireland > History > 20th century.
Ireland.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Front Matter
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Women prosecuted for murder
  • Clemency for the condemned
  • Insanity
  • Sentencing and punishment
  • Post-reprieve punishment of death-sentenced women
  • Motherhood and child-killing
  • Marriage and sexuality
  • Rural lives and class
  • Conclusion: Women's lethal violence in Ireland
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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