The crimes of womanhood : defining femininity in a court of law / A. Cheree Carlson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780252090769
- 0252090764
- 1283043963
- 9781283043960
- Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- Female offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions
- Femininity in popular culture -- United States -- History
- Femininity -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Trials -- United States -- History
- Femmes -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
- Féminité dans la culture populaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Féminité -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Procès -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- LAW -- Criminal Law -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- Female offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Femininity in popular culture
- Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation
- Trials
- Women -- Social conditions
- United States
- 345.73/03 22
- KF4758
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-189) and index.
Narrative intersections in popular trials -- Framing madness in the sanity trial of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard -- The mad doctors meet McNaughton : the battle for narrative supremacy in the trial of Mary Harris -- "True womanhood" and perfect madness : the sanity trial of Mary Todd Lincoln -- Womanhood as asset and liability : Lizzie Andrew Borden -- Bodies at the crossroads : the rise and fall of Madame Restell -- "You know it when you see it" : the rhetorical embodiment of race and gender in Rhinelander volume Rhinelander.
Description based on print version record.
Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America. A. Cheree Carlson analyzes the colorful rhetorical strategies employed by lawyers and reporters in the trials of several women of varying historical stature, from the insanity trials of Mary Todd Lincoln and Lizzie Borden's trial for the brutal slaying of her father and stepmother, to lesser-known trials involving insanity, infidelity, murder, abortion, and interracial marriage. Carlson reveals clearly just how narrow was the line that women had to walk, since the same womanly virtues that were expected of them--passivity, frailty, and purity--could be turned against them at any time. --From publisher's description.
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