Gender and Punishment in Ireland (inbunden, eng)

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 -- .

Format	Inbunden
Omfång	312 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Manchester University Press
Utgivningsdatum	2022-04-21
ISBN	9781526145284