Description
| Product ID: | 9781526145284 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Gender and Punishment in Ireland |
| Subtitle: | Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922–64 |
| Authors: | Author: Lynsey Black |
| Page Count: | 312 |
| Subjects: | History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social and cultural history, Penology and punishment, Law and society, gender issues, Social & cultural history, Penology & punishment, Gender & the law, Ireland, 20th century |
| Description: | In the decades after Irish independence, 292 women were prosecuted for murder, facing the threat of conviction and death sentencing. Within a rising atmosphere of hostility to women, moral rigidity, sexual repression and Catholic Church control, this book explores the meanings and responses to women''s lethal violence in postcolonial Ireland. In the decades after Irish independence, 292 women were prosecuted for murder, facing the threat of conviction and death sentencing. Within a rising atmosphere of hostility to women, moral rigidity, sexual repression and Catholic Church control, this book explores the meanings and responses to women’s lethal violence in postcolonial Ireland. -- . |
| Imprint Name: | Manchester University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Manchester University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-21 |
