The crimes of womanhood : defining femininity in a court of law / A. Cheree Carlson.

• 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.

Ämnesord

Sex discrimination against women  -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Female offenders  -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Women  -- United States -- Social conditions -- History. (LCSH)

Femininity in popular culture  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Femininity  -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Trials  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Kvinnliga brottslingar  -- juridik och lagstiftning -- historia -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Oepa Kriminologi

Ohja:k Kvinnofrågor: historia

Klassifikation

KF4758 (LCC)

345.73/03 (DDC)

Oepa (kssb/8)

Ohja:k-qa (kssb/8)