Joseph W. Laythe

Engendered Death

Pennsylvania Women Who Kill

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Produktbeschreibung

Engendered Death: Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is an historical and interdisciplinary study of women who kill in Pennsylvania from the 18th century to the present. It is not an examination of what motivates women to kill, although the reader may deduce that from the case studies included. Instead, it is an examination of how society perceives women who kill and how the gender-lens is applied to them throughout the legal process in the media and in the courtroom. What makes this work particularly unique is its combination of both scholarly analysis and narrative case studies. As such, it will appeal to both the scholar and the reader of true-crime non-fiction. If we are to recognize the complex variables at play in all criminal offenses, we will need to understand that the laws of a community, its social values, its politics, economics, and even geography play a factor in what laws are enforced and against whom they are enforced. The decision to define and label certain behaviors and certain people was based on social, political, and economic considerations of each community. Thus, the commission of murder by a woman in Arizona may have a variety of factors associated with it that are not present in the case of a woman who murdered her husband in Maine. This study, in part because of the volume of cases and in part to limit the variables affecting the cases, has limited its scope of women killers to the state of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is the ideal state to study because of its long and stable legal and political traditions, its historically diverse population, and the large number of newspapers that will help us gauge the public's view of women and women who kill. By limiting our scope to one state, we know that the legal definitions are fairly consistent for all of the women during a certain period and we can more easily identify the shifts in social values regarding women and homicide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lehigh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781611460926
• ISBN-10: 1611460921
• Artikelnr.: 33947371

Autorenporträt

By Joseph W. Laythe

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 1.  INTRODUCTION    CHAPTER 2. THE WICKED
STEPMOTHER? THE EDNA MUMBULO CASE    Edna's Background     The Fire     The
Hunt     The Trial    Conclusion      CHAPTER 3. GENDER ROLES IN AMERICAN
SOCIETY    Historic Fabrications of Femininity     Engendered Violence:
Women, Violence, and the American Way of Life    Changing Theories   
Biological Explanation   Situational Explanation    Combined Forces The
Statistical Profile   CHAPTER 4.  MARITAL TERROR: HOMICIDE, WOMEN, AND THE
MEN THEY LOVED    No Escape: The Tragic Life and Death of Stella Kuzmicki
       A Troubled Motherhood     The Escape     Their End     Aftermath    
The Devils and the Diary: Mrs. Sample and Murder     Background     The
Diary     The Murder and the Trial     Aftermath     CHAPTER 5.  THE DARKER
SIDE OF MOTHERHOOD     No Chance in Heaven: The Marie Noe Case    
Background     Bassinet to Burial     Investigation, Fame, and SIDS     The
Unraveling    "The Clock is Dismantled": Tanya Dacri     Background     The
Crime     The Trial     CHAPTER 6. THE DEMOTED DEPUTY HUSBAND     Iron
Irene: The Life, Crimes, and Electrocution of a Mother      Background   
The Butler Robbery and the Roadblock Killing    A Cross-Country Flight   
The Trial of Iron Irene Schroeder     "It'll All Come Out in the Wash': The
Millie Thomas Case       Background     The Murder     The Investigation
and Trial     Conclusion        The Janice Graham Case     Background   
The Murders    The Trials       CHAPTER 7.  WITCHCRAFT AND WOMEN WHO KILL
    Poisoned Kitchens    Arsenic and Homeland Traditions: Chalfa-Allas Case
    Background     The Crime     The Trial     Witches, Poison, and Italian
Women: The Philadelphia Poison Ring of the 1930s     Arsenic and Death    
Italian Philadelphia      The Black Widows of Philadelphia     The
Investigation and Trial     CHAPTER 8.  SERVICES NOT RENDERED: WOMEN WHO
KILL AND THE AGENCIES THAT FAILED THEM    Social Services History: A
Cracked Community     Child Protective Services     Inseparable Companions:
The Matricide Case of Agnes West, 1940      212 Cuts and Bruises and One
Big Black Eye: The Lisa Iarussi Case     Brittany and Lisa     The Murder
and Trial     The Black Eye of OCY      Child Welfare Breakdowns     Three
Times a Lady: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong     Background     Murder One    
Murder Two     Murder Three      CHAPTER 9.  RACE, HOMICIDE, AND WOMEN WHO
KILL    Severed City, Severed Soul: Corinne Sykes Case    Racist
Philadelphia, 1940s    Corinne and the Crime   Raymond Pace Alexander and
the Trial of Corinne Sykes    CHAPTER 10.  CONCLUSION     BIBLIOGRAPHY