Gender and punishment in Ireland : women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64 /
Black, Lynsey,
Gender and punishment in Ireland : women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64 / Lynsey Black. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781526145291
Capital punishment--History--Ireland--20th century.
Women murderers--History--Ireland--20th century.
Electronic Books.
HV8699 / .G463 2022
Gender and punishment in Ireland : women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64 / Lynsey Black. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781526145291
Capital punishment--History--Ireland--20th century.
Women murderers--History--Ireland--20th century.
Electronic Books.
HV8699 / .G463 2022