Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair
Author | : Andrew Jackson Marsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrew Jackson Marsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Torrey Morse (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Murder |
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Author | : Carole Haber |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146960759X |
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded such testimony, choosing instead to focus on Fair's disreputable character. In the second trial, however, an effective defense built on contemporary medical beliefs and gendered stereotypes led to a verdict that shocked Americans across the country. In this rousing history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness to show that all these concepts were reinvented in the Victorian West. Haber's book examines the era's most controversial issues, including suffrage, the gendered courts, women's physiology, and free love. This notorious story enriches our understanding of Victorian society, opening the door to a discussion about the ways in which reputation, especially female reputation, is shaped.
Author | : Oscar Tully Shuck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1236 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : |
Brief biographies of judges, attorneys, legal events, and important cases of nineteenth century California. With many portraits.
Author | : Carole Haber |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469607581 |
Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West
Author | : Laura D. Fair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Crime |
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Author | : Robert Ernest Cowan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : California |
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Author | : Austin Sarat |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 080478390X |
The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's processes. The first half of the work examines the role of secrecy in contemporary political and legal practices—including the question of transparency in democratic processes during the Bush Administration, the principle of public justice in England's response to the war on terror, and the evidentiary law of spousal privilege. The second half of the book explores legal, literary, and filmic representations of secrets in law, focusing on how knowledge about particular cases and crimes is often rendered opaque to those attempting to access and decode the information. Those invested in transparency must ultimately cultivate a capacity to read between the lines, decode the illegible, and acknowledge both the virtues and dangers of the unknowable.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Union catalogs |
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