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The crimes of womanhood : defining femininity in a court of law
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Title
The crimes of womanhood : defining femininity in a court of law / A. Cheree Carlson.
ISBN
0252034015 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Physical Description
189 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-189) and index.
Contents
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 v. Rhinelander.
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