Table of Contents: The crimes of womanhood :

Main Author:	Carlson, A. Cheree, 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Subjects:	Sex discrimination against women > Law and legislation > United States > History. Female offenders > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History. Women > Social conditions > United States > History. Femininity in popular culture > History. > United States Femininity > Social aspects > United States > History. Trials > History. > United States

Table of Contents:

Narrative intersections in popular trials
Framing madness in the sanity trial of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
The mad doctors meet McNaughton : the battle for narrative supremacy in the trial of Mary Harris
"True womanhood" and perfect madness : the sanity trial of Mary Todd Lincoln
Womanhood as asset and liability : Lizzie Andrew Borden
Bodies at the crossroads : the rise and fall of Madame Restell
"You know it when you see it" : the rhetorical embodiment of race and gender in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander.