Gender and Punishment in Ireland : Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64

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. -- .

• | : Lynsey Black
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 21, 2022
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1526145286
• | ISBN-13: 9781526145284