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...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2022.
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