Enigma Woman

Name: Enigma Woman
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
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The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison

Autor: Kathleen A. Cairns

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Editura: University of Nebraska Press

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'Crack shot.' 'Enigma woman.' 'Good with ponies and pistols.' 'A much-married woman.' What if such a...

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Autor

Kathleen A. Cairns

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2007

Pagini

316

EAN

9780803211414

Enbook ID

04922332

Editura

University of Nebraska Press

Greutate

567

Dimensiuni

3556 x 5487 x 26

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'Crack shot.' 'Enigma woman.' 'Good with ponies and pistols.' 'A much-married woman.' What if such an unconventional woman - and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional - were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband's bullet-riddled body was found in the couple's Burbank apartment, police issued an all-points bulletin for the 'beautiful, dark-haired widow.' The ensuing drama unfolded with all the strange twists and turns of a noir crime novel. In this intriguing cultural history, Kathleen A. Cairns tells the true tale of the first woman sentenced to death in California, Nellie May Madison. Her story offers a glimpse into law and disorder in 1930s Los Angeles while bringing to life a remarkable character whose plight reflects on the status of woman, the workings of the media and the judiciary system, and the stratification of society in her time. An intriguing cultural history, Cairns' re-creation of the case from murder to trial to aftermath casts an eye forward to our own love-hate affair with celebrity crimes and our abiding ambivalence about domestic violence abuse as a defense for murder.

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