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Author:   A. Cheree Carlson
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9780252080029

ISBN 10:   0252080025
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   11 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments   ix Introduction: Womanhood on Trial   1 1. Narrative Intersections in Popular Trials   15 2. Framing Madness in the Sanity Trial of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard   21 3. The Mad Doctors Meet McNaughton: The Battle for Narrative Supremacy in the Trial of Mary Harris   39 4. ""True Womanhood"" and Perfect Madness: The Sanity Trial of Mary Todd Lincoln   69 5. Womanhood as Asset and Liability: Lizzie Andrew Borden   85 6. Bodies at the Crossroads: The Rise and Fall of Madame Restell   111 7. ""You Know It When You See It"": The Rhetorical Embodiment of Race and Gender in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander   136 Conclusion: Womanhood as Narrative   157 Notes   167 References   173 Index   185"

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[An] innovative study. . . . [Carlson's] careful analysis of the impact of these gendered narratives on the outcome of the cases provides a valuable contribution to the discussion of why law fails to embody the gender neutrality it often idealizes. Recommended. --Choice Engaging, informative, and concise accounts of these complicated trials. --H-Law A provocative, well-written, and illuminating work. --The Journal of American History [A] splendid book. --The Historian A clearly written, provocative study of the role of gender norms and stereotypes in the American justice system of the nineteenth century. --Rhetoric & Public Affairs This enjoyable and readable book adds significantly to our understanding of the construction and embodiment of gender during the 1860s through the 1920s. A nuanced, complex mosaic of public conversations about gender. --Martha Watson, author of Lives of Their Own: Rhetorical Dimensions in Autobiographies of Women Activists Written in a lively style and full of insightful analysis, The Crimes of Womanhood offers an important contribution to rhetorical scholarship. The book will make an excellent addition to courses exploring the intersections of rhetoric, gender, and/or the law in the United States. I look forward to using it. --Sara Hayden, professor of communication studies, University of Montana A provocative read. Carlson illustrates the ways that historical legal narratives-- presented as factual, neutral, and objective--were, indeed, highly rhetorical and highly gendered. Her call for a rhetorical reframing of our narratives regarding women, both within the legal realm and outside it, is nothing less than call for expanding our cultural repertoire of the possibilities for successful femininity. --Cindy L. Griffin, coeditor of Feminist Rhetorical Theories: A Reader

"“[An] innovative study. . . . [Carlson’s] careful analysis of the impact of these gendered narratives on the outcome of the cases provides a valuable contribution to the discussion of why law fails to embody the gender neutrality it often idealizes. Recommended.”--Choice “Engaging, informative, and concise accounts of these complicated trials.”--H-Law ""A provocative, well-written, and illuminating work.""--The Journal of American History ""[A] splendid book.""--The Historian ""A clearly written, provocative study of the role of gender norms and stereotypes in the American justice system of the nineteenth century.""--Rhetoric & Public Affairs ""This enjoyable and readable book adds significantly to our understanding of the construction and embodiment of gender during the 1860s through the 1920s. A nuanced, complex mosaic of public conversations about gender.""--Martha Watson, author of Lives of Their Own: Rhetorical Dimensions in Autobiographies of Women Activists ""Written in a lively style and full of insightful analysis, The Crimes of Womanhood offers an important contribution to rhetorical scholarship. The book will make an excellent addition to courses exploring the intersections of rhetoric, gender, and/or the law in the United States. I look forward to using it.""--Sara Hayden, professor of communication studies, University of Montana ""A provocative read. Carlson illustrates the ways that historical legal narratives-- presented as factual, neutral, and objective--were, indeed, highly rhetorical and highly gendered. Her call for a rhetorical reframing of our narratives regarding women, both within the legal realm and outside it, is nothing less than call for expanding our cultural repertoire of the possibilities for successful femininity.""--Cindy L. Griffin, coeditor of Feminist Rhetorical Theories: A Reader"

A provocative, well-written, and illuminating work. -- The Journal of American History

A provocative, well-written, and illuminating work. --The Journal of American History Engaging, informative, and concise accounts of these complicated trials. --H-Law [An] innovative study. . . . [Carlson's] careful analysis of the impact of these gendered narratives on the outcome of the cases provides a valuable contribution to the discussion of why law fails to embody the gender neutrality it often idealizes. Recommended. --Choice

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A. Cheree Carlson is a professor in the School of Letters and Sciences and a faculty affiliate of the women's studies program at Arizona State University.

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