Author: Grace Ramsay (pseud. [i.e. Kathleen O'Meara.])Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A Woman's Trials
Author: Grace Ramsay (pseud. [i.e. Kathleen O'Meara.])Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A Woman's Trials
Author: Grace RamsayA woman's trials, by Grace Ramsay
Author: Kathleen O'MearaChristine
Author: Laura Curtis BullardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminists
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A feminist novel that has been called "the Jane Eyre of women's rights fiction," and yet was not reprinted until recently. It explicitly parallels the bondage of women and of slaves, as well as the movements of feminism and abolitionism, with a rare frankness for popular fiction its day. The author wound up acquiring Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's trailblazing feminist periodical Revolution. When Laura Curtis Bullard wrote the novel Christine in 1856, she created one of antebellum America's most radical heroines: a woman's rights leader. Addressing the major social, political, and cultural issues surrounding women from within an unusually overt feminist framework for its time, Christine openly challenges a social and legal system that denies women full and equal rights.
Defending Battered Women on Trial
Author: Elizabeth A. SheehyPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774826541
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of “battered woman syndrome” was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the legal response to battered women who killed their partners in the fifteen years since Lavallee. Elizabeth Sheehy uses trial transcripts and a case study approach to tell the stories of eleven women, ten of whom killed their partners. She looks at the barriers women face to “just leaving,” the various ways in which self-defence was argued in these cases, and which form of expert testimony was used to frame women’s experience of battering. Drawing upon a rich expanse of research from many disciplines, she highlights the limitations of the law of self-defence and the costs to women undergoing a murder trial. In a final chapter, she proposes numerous reforms. In Canada, a woman is killed every six days by her male partner, and about twelve women per year kill their male partners. By illuminating the cases of eleven women, this book highlights the barriers to leaving violent men and the practical and legal dilemmas that face battered women on trial for murder.
Curious Subjects
Author: Hilary M. SchorPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199928096
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contracts) and women objects (owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity.
Trial by Woman
Author: Courtney RowleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781941007815
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Tales of woman's trials
Author: Anna Maria HallTales of Woman's Trials
Author: Mrs. S. C. HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Trials and Triumphs
Author: Marilyn Mayer CulpepperPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Hundreds of quotations from both published and unpublished journals and letters written by women during the Civil War are presented in chapters loosely organized around categories of circumstances and roles, chronology, and geography, e.g. the refugee experience, the battle against privation, the Florence Nightingales. The women speak for themselves--Culpepper sets the context and supplies continuity but does not impose conclusions. Oddly, not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR