Gender and punishment in Ireland Political control and freedoms

Gender and punishment in Ireland Political control and freedomsIn the decades after Irish independence, 292 women were prosecuted for murder, facing the threat of conviction and death sentencing. Within a rising atmosphere of hostility to women, moral rigidity, sexual repression and Catholic Church control, this book explores the meanings and responses to womens lethal violence in postcolonial Ireland.

This volume goes beyond these models to self-reflexively question how the management of death is organized and motivated and the ways that death is at once feared and embraced

drawing on sociolinguistic and cross-linguistic research

and its role as a driver of economic growth

The authors are two of the acknowledged world experts on Elizabeth Gaskell – both of whom have helped the BBC in compiling the 1999 Omnibus programme

Enthusiast

The result of integrating cultural ideas with media interpretation sees Tomarken grapple with the question of the title: theory has become a part of our cultural life

this volume shows why traditional systems engineering approaches will not work for complex water problems and what emerging tools and techniques are needed to resolve them

they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing

First to examine Tavernier’s work through the lens of genre

and photographs to reveal the often-overlooked role of girls in the British empire

this book investigates Chinese environmental journalists and concludes that most respond enthusiastically to government promptings to report on the environment and climate change

There is also a substantial bibliography for those who discover that their ancestors migrated from other countries