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Author Laythe, Joseph

Title Engendered Death : Pennsylvania Women Who Kill
Published Lanham : Lehigh University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Wicked Stepmother? The Edna Mumbulo Case of 1930; Chapter 3. Gender Roles in American Society; Chapter 4. Marital Terror: Homicide, Women, and the Men They Loved; Chapter 5. The Darker Side of Motherhood: Infanticide; Chapter 6. The Demoted Deputy Husband: Women Who Kill and the Men They Love; Chapter 7. Witchcraft and Women Who Kill; Chapter 8. Services Not Rendered: Women Who Kill and the Agencies That Failed Them; Chapter 9. Race, Homicide, and Women Who Kill; Chapter 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary 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
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Subject Women murderers -- Pennsylvania -- History
Murder -- Pennsylvania -- History
TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
Murder
Women murderers
Pennsylvania
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611460933
161146093X
1283353792
9781283353793