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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. -- .

Gender and Punishment in Ireland

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 1/24/2024
      ISBN13: 9781526182340, 978-1526182340
      ISBN10: 1526182343

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      Book Synopsis
      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. -- .

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