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LEADER: 02544cam a22003014a 4500
001 2002017955
003 DLC
005 20101224082228.0
008 020104s2002 mou b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2002017955
020 $a0826213863
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050 00 $aHV8699.U5$bS47 2002
082 00 $a364.66/082/0973$221
100 1 $aShipman, Marlin.
245 14 $aThe penalty is death :$bU.S. newspaper coverage of women's executions /$cMarlin Shipman.
260 $aColumbia, Mo. :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$cc2002.
300 $axi, 336 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-317) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Murdered Family Members and Other Schemes -- Chapter 1. Viragos and Unnatural Mothers -- Nineteenth-Century Mothers -- Chapter 2. The Demons Decline -- Twentieth-Century Mothers -- Chapter 3. Husbands and Other Family Members -- Chapter 4. Other Schemes -- Part II. Jazz Journalism and the Execution Story As Drama -- Chapter 5. Excesses in 1920s Louisiana -- Chapter 6. Female Mass Murderers in the Late 1930s -- Chapter 7. Execution Stories As Serial Dramas -- Part III. Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Preference -- Chapter 8. Pre-Civil War Press and Slave Executions -- Chapter 9. Twentieth-Century Black Defendants -- Chapter 10. The Irish -- More Animal Than Human? -- Chapter 11. Sexual Preference -- Changes during the Past Fifty Years -- Part IV. Hollywood, Female "Tough Guys," and Love Triangles -- Chapter 12. Southern California Defendants -- Chapter 13. The Female "Tough Guy" -- Chapter 14. Little Attention for "First" Executions -- Chapter 15. Love Triangles -- Chapter 16. Little Support for Changes to -- Execution Laws -- Chapter 17. Government Secrecy of Executions -- under Federal Authority -- Part V. The Late 1990s and Beyond -- Chapter 18. The High-Tech Media at the End of the -- Twentieth Century -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Index.
650 0 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aExecutions and executioners$xPress coverage$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aWomen prisoners$zUnited States$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2002017955.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1009/2002017955-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2002017955-b.html