Gender and Punishment in Ireland. Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64, Hardback

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. -- .

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Author(s): Lynsey Black
• Number of pages: 312
• Publication date: 2022
• Dimensions: 146 x 222 x 29
• Cover type: Hardback