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The Crimes of Womanhood : Defining Femininity in a Court of Law.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252090769
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Crimes of WomanhoodDDC classification:
  • 345.73/03
LOC classification:
  • KF4758
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Womanhood on Trial -- 1. Narrative Intersections in Popular Trials -- 2. Framing Madness in the Sanity Trial of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard -- 3. The Mad Doctors Meet McNaughton: The Battle for Narrative Supremacy in the Trial of Mary Harris -- 4. "True Womanhood" and Perfect Madness: The Sanity Trial of Mary Todd Lincoln -- 5. Womanhood as Asset and Liability: Lizzie Andrew Borden -- 6. Bodies at the Crossroads: The Rise and Fall of Madame Restell -- 7. "You Know It When You See It": The Rhetorical Embodiment of Race and Gender in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander -- Conclusion: Womanhood as Narrative -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Womanhood on Trial -- 1. Narrative Intersections in Popular Trials -- 2. Framing Madness in the Sanity Trial of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard -- 3. The Mad Doctors Meet McNaughton: The Battle for Narrative Supremacy in the Trial of Mary Harris -- 4. "True Womanhood" and Perfect Madness: The Sanity Trial of Mary Todd Lincoln -- 5. Womanhood as Asset and Liability: Lizzie Andrew Borden -- 6. Bodies at the Crossroads: The Rise and Fall of Madame Restell -- 7. "You Know It When You See It": The Rhetorical Embodiment of Race and Gender in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander -- Conclusion: Womanhood as Narrative -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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