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Acknowledgments . . ix Introduction: The Feminine Side of Women on Trial . . 1 1. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Sanest of Them All?: The Insanity Defense in Court and in the Press . . 16 2. Good Riddance: Justiļ¬able Homicides of Enemy Deviants . . 55 3. Toward the New Woman: Feminine Wiles on Trial . . 81 4. The Haves and the Have Nots: Women on Trial during the Great Depression . . 113 5. War Women of the 1940s: Evolutionary Women in Revolutionary Times . . 136 6. Celebrity on Trial: Tinseltown Tarnished . . 161 Conclusion . . 186 Notes . . 199 Bibliography . . 249 Index . . 263 CONTENTS ...

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