Women, Murder and Femininity [electronic resource] : Gender Representations of Women Who Kill /
Seal, L.author.
Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. A wide range of cases are discussed in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived, and how such cases reflect important social and cultural shifts.
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Introduction : women, murder and femininity -- Five gender representation of women who kill -- Gender, homicide and the mid-twentieth-century England and Wales -- Gender representations of twelve mid-twentieth-century women accused of murder -- Conclusion to Part II.
Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. A wide range of cases are discussed in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived, and how such cases reflect important social and cultural shifts.
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