Medea's daughters
Subtitle: forming and performing the woman who kills
By: Jennifer Jones.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Murder in literature.; Murder in motion pictures.; Women murderers in literature.; Women murderers in motion pictures.; Women murderers -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-120) and index.
Table of contents: value: Female offenders and offensive females; value: Petty (t)reasons for killing her lord and master; value: Absence of (m)alice on the Victorian stage; value: A jury of her peers; value: Totaled women: the battered wife defense; value: Medea returns; value: Narratives of resistance.