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7 produkter
Proof of Guilt
Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America
Inbunden, 2013
409 kr
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Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story—beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, "Bloody Babs" became the third woman executed in California—after a 1953 trial that …
Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950
Häftad, 2007
219 kr
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During a time when female reporters were almost always relegated to the society and women's pages of the newspapers, a few hundred notable women broke barriers and wrote their way onto the front pages of metropolitan newspapers. Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920–1950 takes a look at the lives and …
Enigma Woman
The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison
Häftad, 2009
203 kr
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"Crack shot." "Enigma woman." "Good with ponies and pistols." "A much-married woman." What if such an unconventional woman—and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional—were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband's bullet-riddled body was found in …
Case of Rose Bird
Gender, Politics, and the California Courts
Inbunden, 2016
434 kr
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Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown chose her to become California’s first female supreme court chief justice. Appointed to a court with a stellar reputation for being the nation’s most progressive, Bird became a lightning rod for the opposition due …
At Home in the World
California Women and the Postwar Environmental Movement
Häftad, 2021
255 kr
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From the beginning of California’s statehood, adventurers, scientists, and writers reveled in its majestic landscape. Some were women, though few garnered attention or invitations to join the Sierra Club, the organization created in 1892 to preserve wilderness. Over the next sixty years the Sierra …
Enigma Woman
The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison
Inbunden, 2007
335 kr
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"Crack shot." "Enigma woman." "Good with ponies and pistols." "A much-married woman." What if such an unconventional woman—and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional—were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband's bullet-riddled body was found in …
Hard Time at Tehachapi
California's First Women's Prison
Inbunden, 2009
353 kr
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The California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, once stood in the stark and windswept Cummings Valley, 130 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The state's first prison for female inmates, the facility served, between 1933 and 1952, as a 'laboratory' where penologists and reformers - mostly women - …
