Reviews for Justice Denied: Clemency Appeals in Death Penalty Cases

The average rating for Justice Denied: Clemency Appeals in Death Penalty Cases based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-01 00:00:00 jose martinez vazquez A. Summary 1. Thesis: Midwestern farm women wanted technology but not the idea of homemaking 2. Federal farm policy in 1900 treated women as consumers, not producers. Jellison argues that many women preferred this productive role over the domestic, consumer idea championed by prescriptive literature. This literature emphasized that the adoption of modern equipment would release women from their productive role on the farm and allow them to become a full time home maker. The farm women fought against this modern vision. It is also a cultural history attempting to find the meaning behind advertising and governmental policy towards farm women. This meaning was a modernization message to accept the domestic technology and become consumers of the new products. B. The beginnings of technological reform on the farm: Country life movement and Smith-Lever Act 1. The Country Life Movement was set up by T. Roosevelt to see how progressive goals (improve the quality of farm life) could be met on the farm a) The result of the commission (1909) was the suggestion to make rural life more like urban life b) Bring technology to the field and home 2. Smith-Lever Act (1914) provided funding for farm mechanization. But in doing so it divided the money into 2 spheres; farm and housework C. The modernization message of the 1920s 1. This message was that farm women must be remade in the image of the urban housewife 2. The key to this was to ensure that women had domestic technology 3. The farm women's own needs were not addressed (improved communications technology). Instead they were shown new washing machines and other domestic appliances. 4. This message was sent through advertising, radio, and prescriptive literature in magazines and newspapers 5. The attempt to urbanize farm women met with limited success in the 1920s. Farm women resisted as they held on to their role as farm producer. D. Great Depression and the New Deal: 1. During the Depression many farm women wrote letters to the government claiming poverty. The example that they used was their lack of farm equipment. 2. At the end of the 1930s farm women were in a better position than a decade earlier. Ex. electrified farms, radios, AAA 3. Therefore, New Dealers achieved partial success in getting farm women to acquire modern equipment E. "Tractorettes" go to war 1. Women were called upon to raise the food during the war and make use of masculine machinery 2. These women were the "tractorettes" or the equivalent of "Rosie the riveter" 3. After the was ads picturing women using farm equipment disappeared 4. The value of women's fieldwork disappeared and policymakers once again used women as housewives F. The postwar era 1. Women continued to resist their role as a homemaker 2. Economic constraints required that farm women earn a living outside the farm 3. Within the patriarchal system the women maintained some power through wage-earning activities

Review # 2 was written on 2017-05-19 00:00:00 Shane Ridgeway A foundational work in public history, and still well worth a read. I think, knowing its significance, I went in expecting something dense, theoretical, textbook-y. It is theoretical, but in a very friendly, conversational way, and it's a short book, so I think the interested public could also get a lot out of it too (provided they recognize it's sixty years old). For me as a public history practitioner, it's a positive and encouraging book that helps you think about the visitor first and learn how to give that visitor something of value. There are tips and tricks, and six "principles" of interpretation that I think should still be taught to public history students everywhere, but the main thing is this motivational "consider this aspect..." kind of tone. Because the book mostly focuses on the national parks, and mostly on guiding tours within those parks, others might get even more practical instruction out of it. He takes care to reference museums, historic homes, and other sites of interpretation as well, though. Not the be-all and end-all, but good!