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