Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941, O`Sullivan Patricia
Автор: Steve Tsang Название: A Modern History of Hong Kong: 1841-1997 ISBN: 1350137774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350137776 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Цена: 8712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to 'Mother China', the most powerful Communist state in the world.
Описание: A chronicle of ten mid-Victorian trials that features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family`s fortune, and an ex-priest suing his ex-wife. Most of these trials assailed a culture that frowned upon displays of bad taste, revealing fault lines in what is traditionally seen as a moral and regimented society.
Автор: Laura James Название: The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial ISBN: 1606353942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781606353943 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3129.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James.With cases from 1850 to 1997, these 32 examples span more than a century, across cultures, ethnicities, and socioeconomic status. But all were so beautiful, as James demonstrates, that they got away with murder.When Madeline Smith, a Glasgow socialite, tried to end a relationship with one man to date another, her jilted lover proved difficult to shake. She solved the problem, James writes, with arsenic-laced chocolates. And in Warrenton, Virginia, mild-mannered heiress Susan Cummings gunned down her polo-playing husband, Roberto, following a disagreement. While these two women lived in different centuries and on different continents, both of their lawyers argued that they were too beautiful to be killers. And in both cases, the juries bought it.In telling the stories of Madeline Smith and Susan Cummings—and 30 others—James proves the existence of the so-called Beauty Defense and shines a spotlight on how gender bias has actually benefited femmes fatales and affected legal systems across the world.
Автор: Samuel Totten Название: Plight and Fate of Women During and Following Genocide ISBN: 1412847591 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412847599 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7348.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The plight and fate of female victims during the course of genocide is radically and profoundly different from their male counterparts
Описание: Murderous Women is a glimpse into the dark acts of some of Australia`s most violent women. True crime writers Ruth Wykes and Lindy Cameron examine over a dozen cases from Australia and New Zealand where women have brutally ended the lives of others, either strangers or loved-ones, simply because they could.
Автор: Cairns Kathleen a. Название: The Case of Rose Bird: Gender, Politics, and the California Courts ISBN: 0803255756 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803255753 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4634.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 to her liberalism, inexperience, and gender. Over the next decade, her name became a rallying cry as critics mounted a relentless effort to get her off the court. Bird survived three unsuccessful recall efforts, but her opponents eventually succeeded in bringing about her defeat in 1986, making her the first chief justice to be removed from the California Supreme Court. The Case of Rose Bird provides a fascinating look at this important and complex woman and the political and cultural climate of California in the 1970s and 1980s. Seeking to uncover the identities and motivations of Bird’s vehement critics, Kathleen A. Cairns traces Bird’s meteoric rise and cataclysmic fall. Cairns considers the instrumental role that then-current gender dynamics played in Bird’s downfall, most visible in the tensions between second-wave feminism and the many Americans who felt that a “radical” feminist agenda might topple long-standing institutions and threaten “traditional” values.
Описание: When we think about the most infamous of these killers, we generally think of men like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, or John Wayne Gacy...
Those names make headlines while there's the often-repeated myth that suggests there are no female serial killers.
After all, most of us couldn't name a woman on the same scale of infamy at BTK or the elusive Zodiac Killer, can we? As it so often is, the truth is far more complicated.
Women kill. While they are less sensationalized than their male counterparts, they are no less deadly. At the time of publication, current research shows that one in six serial killers is female, bringing their number to fifteen percent of confirmed serial killers.
Inside this spine-chilling coloring book, you'll discover 23 Of History's Most Ruthless Female Serial Killers, depicted with stunning and detailed illustrations for you to color. You'll find:
Rosemary West
Gesche Gottfried
Myra Hindley
Mary Bell
Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova
Lavinia Fisher
Aileen Wuornos
Karla Homolka
Gwen Graham And Cathy Wood
And More...
With single-sided pages to prevent bleed and make tearing out your favorites easy, as well as high-resolution images, this book is perfect for those with a morbid curiosity of the monsters who walk among us. Ideal as a gift - or just for yourself - this book puts on show the world's worst killers in stunning detail, with symbolism to link them to their crimes and weapons of choice.
Автор: Davidson Shayne Название: Queen of the Burglars: The Scandalous Life of Sophie Lyons ISBN: 1476682542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476682549 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4574.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Born in mid-nineteenth century America, Sophie Lyons was a master thief, con artist, blackmailer and smuggler. Despite her prominent place in crime history, Sophie Lyons has never been the subject of a full-length biography. This book chronicles Sophie`s fascinating and tragic life.
Автор: Farber Tanya Название: Blood on Her Hands: South Africa`s most notorius female killers ISBN: 1868429261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781868429264 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3110.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
MEET DAISY DE MELKER, who 'lovingly' prepared a flask of strychnine-laced coffee for her son. She is very different from Najwa Petersen, who carefully planned a 'house robbery' to eliminate her musician husband. Chan van Heerden placed her victim's facial skin in the freezer for preservation, yet Phoenix Racing Cloud Theron wished to dispose of her mother's body before it was even cold. And Dina Rodrigues? She 'wouldn't harm a fly' - but went and organised a hit on a baby.
Women are not paragons of virtue who cannot commit murder. Nor are they always insane when they do deliberately cause death. And the women with 'blood on their hands' are not homogeneous.
In Blood on Her Hands, award-winning journalist Tanya Farber investigates the lives, minds and motivations of some of South Africa's most notorious female murderers, from the poisonous nurse Daisy de Melker, to the privileged but deeply disturbed Najwa Petersen, to the mysterious Joey Haarhoff, who died before revealing the fate of her victims. Written in a style lighter than the subject matter might suggest, Blood on Her Hands will keep you reading until late at night.
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 played out before standing-room-only crowds captured the imaginations of journalists, filmmakers, and death penalty opponents. Why, Kathleen A. Cairns asks, of all the capital cases in the twentieth century, did Graham’s have such political resonance and staying power?
Leaving aside the question of guilt or innocence—debated to this day—Cairns examines how Graham’s case became a touchstone in the ongoing debate over capital punishment. While prosecutors positioned the accused woman as a femme fatale, the media came to offer a counternarrative for Graham’s life highlighting her abusive and lonely beginnings. Cairns shows how Graham’s case became crucial to the abolitionists of the time, who used instances of questionable guilt to raise awareness of the arbitrary and capricious nature of death penalty prosecutions. Critical in keeping capital punishment in the forefront of public consciousness until abolitionists homed in on a winning strategy, Graham's case illustrates the power of individual stories to shape wider perceptions and ultimately public policies.
Описание: This book explores gender dynamics in the indigenous villages in post-handover Hong Kong. It looks at how Hong Kong`s reunification with China has impacted the walled villagers, in particular women, and how the walled villages` current gender dynamics reflects the changes that have happened in Hong Kong after the reunification with China.
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