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Author Bakken, Gordon Morris.

Title Women who kill men : California courts, gender, and the press / Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington.

Publication Info. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Series Law in the American West
Law in the American West.
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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Trials (Murder) -- California.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- California -- History.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California -- History.
Women murderers -- Social aspects -- California.
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Added Author Farrington, Brenda.
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 bk.)
0803226578 (electronic bk.)
Sudoc No. U5001 T165 .0011 -2009 nbdocs
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