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Deadly Australian women / Kay Saunders.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 2013Copyright date: © 2013Description: 359 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780733332104 (paperback) :
Other title:
  • Deadly Australian women : stories of the women who broke society's greatest taboo
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1523 23
Contents:
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 .
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Stage 6 History: Movements for change in 20th century - A8: Women's movements
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book 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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