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Janice Schuetz investigates the felony trials of nine American women from colonial Salem to the present: Rebecca Nurse, tried for witchcraft in 1692; Mary E. Surratt, tried in 1865 for assisting John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Lizzie Andrew Borden, tried in 1892 for the ax murder of her father and stepmother; Margaret Sanger, tried in 1915, 1917, and 1929 for her actions in support of birth control; Ethel Rosenberg, tried in 1951 for aiding the disclosure of secrets of the atom bomb to the Soviets; Yvonne Wanrow, tried in 1974 for killing a man who molested her neighbors daughter; Patricia Campbell Hearst, tried in 1975 for bank robbery as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army; Jean Harris, tried in 1982 for killing Herman Tarnower, the Diet Doctor; and Darci Kayleen Pierce, tried in 1988 for kidnapping and brutally murdering a pregnant woman, then removing the baby from the womans womb.In her analysis, Schuetz is careful to define these trials as popular trials. Characteristically, popular trials involve persons, issues, or crimes of social interest that attract extensive public interest and involvement. Such trials make a contribution to the ongoing historical dialogue about the meaning of justice and the legal system, while reflecting the values of the time and place in which they occur.Schuetz examines the kinds of communication that transpired and the importance of gender in the trials by applying a different current rhetorical theory to each trial text. In every chapter, she explains her chosen interpretive theory, compares that framework with the discourse of the trial, and makes judgments about the meaning of the trial texts based on the interpretive theory.

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title:The Logic of Women On Trial : Case Studies of Popular American Trials
author:Schuetz, Janice E.
publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin:0809319268
print isbn13:9780809319268
ebook isbn13:9780585031446
language:English
subjectTrials--United States, Female offenders--United States, Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects--United States.
publication date:1994
lcc:KF220.S383 1994eb
ddc:345.73/03
subject:Trials--United States, Female offenders--United States, Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects--United States.
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The Logic Of Women On Trial
Case Studies of Popular American Trials
Janice Schuetz
Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale and Edwardsville
Page iv
Copyright 1994
by the Board of Trustees,
Southern Illinois University Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Edited by Rebecca Spears Schwartz
Designed by Edward D. King
Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga
97 96 95 94 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Schuetz, Janice E.
The logic of women on trial: case studies of popular American
trials / Janice Schuetz.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. TrialsUnited States. 2. Female offendersUnited States.
3. Criminal justice, Administration ofSocial aspectsUnited
States. I. Title.
Kf220.S383 1994
345.73'03dc20
[347.3053] 93-10125
ISBN 0-8093-1869-5
ISBN 0-8093-1926-8 (paper)
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum
requirements of American National Standard for Information
SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,
ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Page v
To my parents,
Charles and June Schuetz
and
To my academic godparents,
Wayne Brockriede and Mary M. Roberts
Page vii
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
1
Introduction: The Logic of the Trial
1
2
Rebecca Nurse
The Logic of Symbolic Action
10
3
Mary E. Surratt
The Logic of Conflicting Values
35
4
Lizzie Andrew Borden
The Logic of Justification
61
5
Margaret Sanger
The Logic of Agitation
86

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6
Ethel Rosenberg
The Logic of Ideology
111
7
Yvonne Wanrow
The Logic of Cultural Narrative
136
8
Patricia Campbell Hearst
The Logic of Coercive Persuasion
161
9
Jean Harris
The Logic of Fallacies
184
10
Darci Kayleen Pierce
The Logic of Psychological Biography
209
References
235
Index
249

Page ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THIS PROJECT took shape after several years of research and many stimulating discussions with my friends and colleagues. My gratitude goes to several key persons who helped me secure the legal materials for each chapter. James McKenzie and his staff at the interlibrary loan office at the University of New Mexico retrieved dozens of sources for me and never complained about the valuable services they performed. I am grateful to the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the rare books librarians at the Firestone Library at Princeton University for their resources on the Surratt trial. Charles Longley of Boston Public Library, the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Historical Society gave me assistance on research about the Nurse and Borden cases. Amy Hague, archivist of the Sanger papers at Smith College, kindly copied essential materials for Sanger's trials. The Firestone Library at Princeton University provided key materials for the Rosenberg trial. The librarians at the Washington State Supreme Court Library and the State Library in Olympia, Washington, supplied the transcripts and news files for the Wanrow case. Michael and Shanna Stevenson of Olympia, Washington, and Don Klein of Seattle assisted in collection of materials about Washington law and the Colville Indian culture. One court librarian in San Francisco helped me locate information on the Hearst case. A court reporter in White Plains, New York, duplicated the Harris transcripts and shared his recollections about the case with me. The New Mexico State Supreme Court librarians in Santa Fe, New Mexico, assisted with the duplication of the transcripts of the Darci Pierce trial, and many persons who attended the trial consented to interviews with me about the case.
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