Gordon Morris Bakken is a professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Practicing Law in Frontier California (Nebraska 2006) and Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects. Brenda Farrington is a lecturer in the history department at Chapman University. She has coauthored or coedited several books with Gordon Morris Bakken, including Law in the West and Encyclopedia of Women in the American West.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Feminine Side of Women on Trial1. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Sanest of Them All?: The Insanity Defense in Court and in the Press2. Good Riddance: Justifiable Homicides of Enemy Deviants3. Toward the New Woman: Feminine Wiles on Trial4. The Haves and the Have Nots: Women on Trial during the Great Depression5. War Women of the 1940s: Evolutionary Women in Revolutionary Times6. Celebrity on Trial: Tinseltown TarnishedConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender, and the Press provides a unique, historical glimpse into the trials of female defendants charged with murder in California from 1870 to 1958."—Brooke Butler, Psychology of Women Quarterly "Women Who Kill Men will appeal to social historians, behaviorists, students of women's issues, and the buff trade."—Clark Secrest, Western Historical Quarterly

Gordon Morris Bakken is a professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Practicing Law in Frontier California (Nebraska 2006) and Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects. Brenda Farrington is a lecturer in the history department at Chapman University. She has coauthored or coedited several books with Gordon Morris Bakken, including Law in the West and Encyclopedia of Women in the American West.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Feminine Side of Women on Trial1. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Sanest of Them All?: The Insanity Defense in Court and in the Press2. Good Riddance: Justifiable Homicides of Enemy Deviants3. Toward the New Woman: Feminine Wiles on Trial4. The Haves and the Have Nots: Women on Trial during the Great Depression5. War Women of the 1940s: Evolutionary Women in Revolutionary Times6. Celebrity on Trial: Tinseltown TarnishedConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender, and the Press provides a unique, historical glimpse into the trials of female defendants charged with murder in California from 1870 to 1958."—Brooke Butler, Psychology of Women Quarterly "Women Who Kill Men will appeal to social historians, behaviorists, students of women's issues, and the buff trade."—Clark Secrest, Western Historical Quarterly

Gordon Morris Bakken is a professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Practicing Law in Frontier California (Nebraska 2006) and Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects. Brenda Farrington is a lecturer in the history department at Chapman University. She has coauthored or coedited several books with Gordon Morris Bakken, including Law in the West and Encyclopedia of Women in the American West.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Feminine Side of Women on Trial1. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Sanest of Them All?: The Insanity Defense in Court and in the Press2. Good Riddance: Justifiable Homicides of Enemy Deviants3. Toward the New Woman: Feminine Wiles on Trial4. The Haves and the Have Nots: Women on Trial during the Great Depression5. War Women of the 1940s: Evolutionary Women in Revolutionary Times6. Celebrity on Trial: Tinseltown TarnishedConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender, and the Press provides a unique, historical glimpse into the trials of female defendants charged with murder in California from 1870 to 1958."—Brooke Butler, Psychology of Women Quarterly "Women Who Kill Men will appeal to social historians, behaviorists, students of women's issues, and the buff trade."—Clark Secrest, Western Historical Quarterly