Introduction: Female Offenders and Offensive Females -- Ch. 1. Petty (T)reasons for Killing Her Lord and Master -- Ch. 2. Absence of (M)alice on the Victorian Stage -- Ch. 3. A Jury of Her Peers -- Ch. 4. Totaled Women: The Battered Wife Defense -- Ch. 5. Medea Returns -- Ch. 6. Narratives of Resistance -- Afterword / Andrea Yates
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-120) and index
