TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ballinger,Anette
TI  - Dead woman walking: executed women in England and Wales, 1900-1955 
SN  - 184014789X
U1  - 364.15230942 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, Vt.
PB  - Ashgate/Dartmouth
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - England
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - Wales
KW  - Executions and executioners
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women murderers
N1  - Preface. - Acknowledgements. - 1. Introduction. - 2. From Antiquity to Modernity: A Social History of Capital Punishment and Gender. - 3. Beyond Traditional and Revisionist Theory: Feminist Theory and the Power to Punish. - 4. Women as Child-Killers: Four Case-Studies. - 5. Women Killing other Women. - 6. Women Who Kill their Male Partners. 7. Conclusion. - Appendixes. - Bibliography. - Index
N2  - "The first major study of women and capital punishment, this book is a fascinating and critical study of the lives, crimes, trail and punishment of the fifteen women who were executed in England and Wales in the 20th century. Combining key biographical details with previously unpublished archive material, it expands the borders of existing feminist/sociological theory to reveal disturbing evidence of miscarrages of justice and unsafe convictions. The results is a highly readable and controversial book, which will be essential reading for sociologists and criminologists alike." - Front cover flap
ER  -