The Enigma Woman
The Enigma Woman

Author: Kathleen A. Cairns

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780803206922

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?Crack shot.? ?Enigma woman.? ?Good with ponies and pistols.? ?A much-married woman.? ø What if such an unconventional woman?and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional?were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband?s bullet-riddled body was found in the couple?s Burbank apartment, police issued an all-points bulletin for the ?beautiful, dark-haired widow.? The ensuing drama unfolded with all the strange twists and turns of a noir crime novel.øøøøøø ø In this intriguing cultural history, Kathleen A. Cairns tells the true tale of the first woman sentenced to death in California, Nellie May Madison. Her story offers a glimpse into law and disorder in 1930s Los Angeles while bringing to life a remarkable character whose plight reflects on the status of woman, the workings of the media and the judiciary system, and the stratification of society in her time. An intriguing cultural history, Cairns?s re-creation of the case from murder to trial to aftermath casts an eye forward to our own love-hate affair with celebrity crimes and our abiding ambivalence about domestic violence abuse as a defense for murder.

Through the Prism of Gender and Work
Through the Prism of Gender and Work

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-18

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9004682481

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This book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests. Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only organizations, state institutions, and international and intellectual networks, and were active on the shopfloor. Rectifying geopolitical and thematic imbalances in labour and gender history, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of women’s activism, social movements, political and intellectual history, and transnationalism. Contributors are: Eloisa Betti, Masha Bratishcheva, Jan A. Burek, Selin Çağatay, Daria Dyakonova, Mátyás Erdélyi, Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner, Eric Fure-Slocum, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Maren Hachmeister, Veronika Helfert, Natalia Jarska, Marie Láníková, Ivelina Masheva, Jean-Pierre Liotard-Vogt, Denisa Nešťáková, Sophia Polek, Zhanna Popova, Büşra Satı, Masha Shpolberg, Georg Spitaler, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Johanna Wolf and Susan Zimmermann.

St Rose Church Records Extract, 1841-1900
St Rose Church Records Extract, 1841-1900

Author: Allen William Bernard

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Baptisms include name, birth date, baptism date, name of father and mother, name of priest, book and page number. Death/burial records include name, age, death and burial date, page entry, name of priest, and comments. Marriages include name of groom and bride, date of marriage, name of witnesses, and page entry, father and mother of bride, father and mother of groom, and name of priest. Confirmation records include name of confirmant, year of confirmation, archbishop, page number, name of sponsor and pastor.