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Author Black, Lynsey, author.

Title Gender and punishment in Ireland : women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64 / Lynsey Black
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022
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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
Ireland
Magdalen Laundries
Mother and Baby Homes
criminal insanity
death penalty
infanticide
punishment
sentencing
women's prisons
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2022)
Subject Capital punishment -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Women murderers -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Europe / Ireland.
Capital punishment
Women murderers
Social services & welfare, criminology.
True Crime.
Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526145291
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