Women, murder, and femininity
Subtitle: gender representations of women who kill
By: Lizzie Seal
Series: Cultural criminology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780230222755
Subjects: Femininity; Women murderers
Description: "Women who kill rupture the assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. It discusses a wide range of cases in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface; title: Women, Murder and Femininity; title: Gender, Homicide and the Mid Twentieth-Century; title: The Masculine Woman; title: The Muse or Mastermind Dichotomy; title: The Damaged Personality; title: The Respectable Woman; title: The Witch; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography.