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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2022.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526145291
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV8699 .G463 2022
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Contents:
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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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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