Killing women
Subtitle: the visual culture of gender and violence
By: Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord, editors.
Contributors: Lord, Susan, 1959-; Burfoot, Annette.
Series: Cultural studies series; Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
Publisher: Wilfred Laurier University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780889204973
Subjects: Women murderers; Violence in women; Women -- Violence against; Women murderers in motion pictures; Violence in motion pictures; Women in mass media; Violence in mass media; Motion pictures -- Social aspects; Mass media -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-315) and index.
Table of contents: title: History, memory, and mediations of murder. Mapping scripts and narratives of women who kill their husbands in Canada, 1866-1954: inscribing the everyday / Sylvie Frigon; title: Neither forgotten nor fully remembered: tracing an ambivalent public memory on the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre / Sharon Rosenberg; title: Missing: on the politics of re/presentation / Zoey Élouard Michele; title: Killing the killers: women on death row in the United States / Kathleen O'Shea; title: "Dealing with the devil": Karla Homolka and the absence of feminist criticism / Belinda Morrissey. Techniques and technologies of representing violence. Pearls and gore: the spectacle of woman in life and death / Annette Burfoot; title: "I am awake in the place where women die": violent death in the art of Abigail Lane and Jenny Holzer / Lisa Coulthard; title: Women and murder in the televirtuality film / Jack Boozer; title: "I'm in there! I'm one of the women in that picture" / Margot Leigh Butler; title: Killing time: the violent imaginary of feminist media / Susan Lord. National trouble: gendered violence. Dario Argento's The bird with the crystal plumage: caging women's rage / Frank Burke; title: How positively levitating! Chinese heroines of Kung fu and Wuxia pian / Suzie S.F. Young; title: The madwomen in our movies: female psycho-killers in American horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider; title: Reverence, rape; title: and then revenge: popular Hindi cinema's "women's film" / Jyotika Virdi; title: In the name of the nation: images of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters / Dorit Naaman.