Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64
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ISBN: 9781526145284
Author | Black, Lynsey |
Pub Date | 05/04/2022 |
Binding | Hardback |
Pages | 288 |
Country | GBR |
Dewey | 364.152308 |
Quick overview 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. -- .