Gender and punishment in Ireland women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64
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 sexu...
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Manchester
Manchester University Press
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 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's lethal violence in postcolonial Ireland |
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| Beschreibung: | 300 Seiten |