Deadly Australian women / Kay Saunders.
Publisher: Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 2013Copyright date: © 2013Description: 359 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:- still image
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- unmediated
- volume
- 9780733332104 (paperback) :
- Deadly Australian women : stories of the women who broke society's greatest taboo
- 364.1523 23
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Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 364.1523 SAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 68124 |
"Stories of the women who broke society's greatest taboo"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-355) and index.
Introduction -- 1. Lethal Abortion in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Lethal Abortion in the Twentieth Century -- 3. Baby Killers in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Baby Killers in the Twentieth Century -- 5. A Baffling Case : Keli Lane -- 6. The Deadly Baby Farmers -- 7. Child Killers in the Nineteenth Century -- 8. The Wicked Stepmother : Martha Rendall -- 9. Child Killers in the Twentieth Century -- 10. Poisoners of the Nineteenth Century -- 11. The Thallium Killers -- 12. Deadly Manoeuvres in the Nineteenth Century -- 13. Killing of Partners in the Twentieth Century -- 14. Eugenia Falleni, The ‘Man—Woman' Killer -- 16. Deadly Lovers' Pacts in the Nineteenth Century .
Following the success of her first book, NOTORIOUS AUSTRALIAN WOMEN, historian Kay Saunders turns to the women who have killed in Australia - their motivations, their lives, their psychology.
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