The crimes of womanhood : defining femininity in a court of law /
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
c2009
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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