The Trials of Laura Fair Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West |
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| Author:
| Haber, Carole |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4696-2646-8 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.50 |
Book Description:
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On November 3, 1870 Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. In this history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness.
On November 3, 1870 Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. In this history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness.