Gender and punishment in Ireland : women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64 / Lynsey Black.

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Black, Lynsey [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781526145291

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV8699 .G463 2022

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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

Subject: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HV8699.73 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1311332023

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.

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