A Woman's Trials

A Woman's Trials
Author: Grace Ramsay (pseud. [i.e. Kathleen O'Meara.])
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1867
Genre:
ISBN:

Curious Subjects

Curious Subjects
Author: Hilary M. Schor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199928096

Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contracts) and women objects (owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity.

Defending Battered Women on Trial

Defending Battered Women on Trial
Author: Elizabeth A. Sheehy
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2013-12-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774826541

In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of “battered woman syndrome” was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the legal response to battered women who killed their partners in the fifteen years since Lavallee. Elizabeth Sheehy uses trial transcripts and a case study approach to tell the stories of eleven women, ten of whom killed their partners. She looks at the barriers women face to “just leaving,” the various ways in which self-defence was argued in these cases, and which form of expert testimony was used to frame women’s experience of battering. Drawing upon a rich expanse of research from many disciplines, she highlights the limitations of the law of self-defence and the costs to women undergoing a murder trial. In a final chapter, she proposes numerous reforms. In Canada, a woman is killed every six days by her male partner, and about twelve women per year kill their male partners. By illuminating the cases of eleven women, this book highlights the barriers to leaving violent men and the practical and legal dilemmas that face battered women on trial for murder.

Trial by Woman

Trial by Woman
Author: Courtney Rowley
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781941007815

The Trials of Nina McCall

The Trials of Nina McCall
Author: Scott W. Stern
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807042765

The nearly forgotten story of the fight against the American Plan, a government program designed to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality “A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and behavior.” —New York Times Book Review Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by the United States government throughout the twentieth century. Tens, probably hundreds, of thousands of women and girls were locked up—usually without due process—simply because officials suspected these women were prostitutes, carrying STIs, or just “promiscuous.” This discriminatory program, dubbed the “American Plan,” lasted from the 1910s into the 1950s, implicating a number of luminaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Earl Warren, and even Eliot Ness, while laying the foundation for the modern system of women’s prisons. In some places, vestiges of the Plan lingered into the 1960s and 1970s, and the laws that undergirded it remain on the books to this day. Nina McCall’s story provides crucial insight into the lives of countless other women incarcerated under the American Plan. Stern demonstrates the pain and shame felt by these women and details the multitude of mortifications they endured, both during and after their internment. Yet thousands of incarcerated women rioted, fought back against their oppressors, or burned their detention facilities to the ground; they jumped out of windows or leapt from moving trains or scaled barbed-wire fences in order to escape. And, as Nina McCall did, they sued their captors. In an age of renewed activism surrounding harassment, health care, prisons, women’s rights, and the power of the state, this virtually lost chapter of our history is vital reading.

Woman's Trials

Woman's Trials
Author: T. S. Arthur
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2006-11
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1421824566

I WAS very unhappy, from a variety of causes, definable and undefinable. My chambermaid had been cross for a week, and, by talking to my cook, had made her dissatis-fied with her place. The mother of five little children, I felt that I had a weight of car