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Broughton, Candace Scovell.

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Gendered justice: Emma Wimple and the story of Murder Hill (New York, Emma Wimple).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gendered justice: Emma Wimple and the story of Murder Hill (New York, Emma Wimple)./
Author:	Broughton, Candace Scovell.
Description:	224 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4097.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3113476
ISBN:	0496609696

Gendered justice: Emma Wimple and the story of Murder Hill (New York, Emma Wimple).
Broughton, Candace Scovell.

Gendered justice: Emma Wimple and the story of Murder Hill (New York, Emma Wimple). - 224 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4097.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2004.

The world of nineteenth century rural women convicted of violent crime has been little studied. In 1875, Emma Wimple (1855--1917), aged twenty, the mother of two, and five months pregnant, was arrested at her home outside Little Valley, New York, and charged with poisoning her husband. The case struck a "social nerve." There seemed to be little, if any, doubt regarding her guilt in her community; and she was, in fact, pronounced guilty. This study interrogates not only the "official record" of her trial, but also the (dis) continuity of the story as legend, oral history, landscape feature, and myth. While the primary theoretical foundation is feminist, human lives do not observe disciplinary boundaries; thus, a range of theoretical perspectives inform the paper, including hermeneutics, medicine, law, the murder tale, sociology and criminology. Perspectives borrowed from folklore, oral and local history, and cultural geography converge in the discussion of history, memory, narrative, and tradition. Writings, as well, on the analytical, tensions between local and academic historiography have proven useful. Investigation into the local, regional, and national historical context reveals considerable social unrest in this period of rapid modernization, including the rise of "socializing" institutions, such as prisons and mental hospitals. Women's struggle for equality, in particular, aroused passionate responses on both sides. Certainly, during this period the "specter of the poisoning wife" haunted many levels of society. Victorian ideologies of "separate spheres" differentiated women in ways that often followed class lines and carried serious consequences for those women less well placed. Historically this phenomenon is known as "legal chivalry." The dissertation relies on primary, as well as secondary sources. Information derived from the newspaper accounts, legal documents, and oral tradition is used to examine the narrative and its apparent inconsistencies, as well as its historical context.

ISBN: 0496609696Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Gendered justice: Emma Wimple and the story of Murder Hill (New York, Emma Wimple).
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