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Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America. A. Cheree Carlson analyzes the colorful rhetorical strategies employed by lawyers and reporters in the trials of several women of varying historical stature, from the insanity trials of Mary Todd Lincoln and Lizzie Borden's trial for the brutal slaying of her father and stepmother, to lesser-known trials involving insanity, infidelity, murder, abortion, and interracial marriage. Carlson reveals clearly just how narrow was the line that women had to walk, since the same womanly virtues that were expected of them--passivity, frailty, and purity--could be turned against them at any time. With gripping retellings and incisive analysis, this book will appeal to historians, rhetoricians, feminist researchers, and anyone who enjoys courtroom drama.
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Female offenders, Femininity, Femininity in popular culture, History, Law and legislation, Legal status, laws, Sex discrimination against women, Social aspects, Social aspects of Femininity, Social conditions, Trials, Women, Women, united states, social conditions, Trials, united statesPlaces
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The crimes of womanhood: defining femininity in a court of law
2009, University of Illinois Press
in English
0252034015 9780252034015
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