Women who kill men : California courts, gender, and the press / Gordon Morris Bakken & Brenda Farrington.

Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

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Trials (Murder) -- California.

Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- California.

Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- History -- California.

Women murderers -- Social aspects -- California.

1. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the sanest of them all? : the insanity defense in court and in the press

2. Good riddance : justifiable homicides of enemy deviants

3. Toward the new woman : feminine wiles on trial

4. The haves and the have nots : women on trial during the Great Depression

5. War women of the 1940s : evolutionary women in revolutionary times

6. Celebrity on trial : Tinseltown tarnished.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780803213616

xi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm