Women who kill men
Subtitle: California courts, gender, and the press
By: Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington.
Contributors: Farrington, Brenda.
Series: Law in the American West
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803213616
Subjects: Trials (Murder) -- California; Women -- California -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California -- History; Women murderers -- California -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the sanest of them all? : the insanity defense in court and in the press; title: Good riddance : justifiable homicides of enemy deviants; title: Toward the new woman : feminine wiles on trial; title: The haves and the have nots : women on trial during the Great Depression; title: War women of the 1940s : evolutionary women in revolutionary times; title: Celebrity on trial : tinseltown tarnished.