Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington

Women Who Kill Men

California Courts, Gender, and the Press

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gordon Morris Bakken is a professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Practicing Law in Frontier California (Nebraska 2006) and Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects. ¿ Brenda Farrington is a lecturer in the history department at Chapman University. She has coauthored or coedited several books with Gordon Morris Bakken, including Law in the West and Encyclopedia of Women in the American West.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780803245440
• ISBN-10: 0803245440
• Artikelnr.: 36759296

Autorenporträt

Gordon Morris Bakken is a professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Practicing Law in Frontier California (Nebraska, 2006) and Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects. Brenda Farrington is a lecturer in the history department at Chapman University. She has coauthored or coedited several books with Gordon Morris Bakken, including Law in the West and Encyclopedia of Women in the American West.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Feminine Side of Women on Trial
1. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Sanest of Them All?: The Insanity
Defense in Court and in the Press
2. Good Riddance: Justifiable Homicides of Enemy Deviants
3. Toward the New Woman: Feminine Wiles on Trial
4. The Haves and the Have Nots: Women on Trial during the Great Depression
5. War Women of the 1940s: Evolutionary Women in Revolutionary Times
6. Celebrity on Trial: Tinseltown Tarnished
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index