Women Who Killed in Self Defense Serve Three Times Longer Than the Males who Killed their Wives

Donna Ferrato, American, born 1949

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1989

Archival pigment print

Image: 15 1/16 × 21 3/4 in. (38.2 × 55.3 cm)

Sheet: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret E. and Russell A. Rabito

2014.105.7

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed, on reverse, lower right, in black ink: Donna Ferrato / Women who Killed in Self defense / Serve 3 times longer than the / Males who killed their Wives / 1989

Course History

WGSS 10.01, Sex, Gender, and Society, Douglas Moody, Fall 2019

WGSS 10.02, Sex, Gender, and Society, Kristen O'Rourke, Fall 2019

WGSS 10.03, Sex, Gender, and Society, Jenn Sargent, Fall 2019

WGSS 10.04, Sex, Gender, and Society, Susan Brison, Fall 2019

ANTH 73.01, Main Currents in Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Winter 2022

SOCY 2.01, Social Problems, Kristin Smith, Winter 2022

Anthropology 73.01, Main Currents in Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Spring 2024

History 36.03, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 66.36, Geography 70.02, Histories of the Carceral State, Bench Ansfield, Spring 2024

Psychological & Brain Sciences 54.04, Forensic Psychology, Anne Corbin, Summer 2024

Provenance

Margaret E. and Russell A. Rabito, Scarsdale, New York; given to present collection, 2014.

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