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Auteur(s) : Conley, Carolyn A. (1953-....)
Titre(s) : Debauched, desperate, deranged [Texte imprimé] : women who killed, London 1674-1913 / Carolyn A. Conley
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x, 227 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index
Contemporary studies have concluded that women are far less likely to kill than men
and that when women do kill, they do so within the family. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged:
Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913 examines the evolution of this pattern in the over
1400 trials in which women were prosecuted for homicide in London from the late seventeenth
century until just before the First World War. Which deaths were considered homicides
and in what circumstances women were culpable illustrates profound changes in the
prevailing assumptions about women. The outcomes of trials and the portrayals of these
women in the press illuminate changes in perceptions of women's status and their physical
and mental limitations. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged breaks new ground in existing
studies of gender and homicide, using a long time frame to discern which trends are
brief anomalies and which represent significant change or continuity. 0Debauched,
Desperate, Deranged is the first empirical, quantitatively as well as qualitatively
based study of women and homicide from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. It
presents new and significant conclusions on changing incidence of maternal homicides
and the remarkable constancy of spousal homicides
Sujet(s) : Meurtrières -- Londres (GB) -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198863039. - ISBN 9780198863038
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46632773k
Notice n° :
FRBNF46632773
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