Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 |
Analysis |
Catholic Church |
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Ireland |
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Magdalen Laundries |
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Mother and Baby Homes |
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criminal insanity |
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death penalty |
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infanticide |
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punishment |
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sentencing |
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women's prisons |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2022) |
Subject |
Capital punishment -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
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Women murderers -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY / Europe / Ireland.
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Capital punishment
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Women murderers
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Social services & welfare, criminology.
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True Crime.
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Ireland
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781526145291 |
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1526145294 |
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9781526145307 |
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1526145308 |
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