TY  - BOOK
AU  - Black,Lynsey
TI  - Gender and punishment in Ireland: women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64 
SN  - 9781526145291
AV  - HV8699 .G463 2022
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - Ireland
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women murderers
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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