Gender and punishment in Ireland: Women, murder and the death penalty, 1922?û64

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.

• | Author: Lynsey Black
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1526145286
• | ISBN-13: 9781526145284