Women, murder, and femininity gender representations of women who kill
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Women, Murder and Femininity -- Gender, Homicide and the Mid Twentieth-Century -- The Masculine Woman -- The Muse or Mastermind Dichotomy -- The Damaged Personality -- The Respectable Woman -- The Witch -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
2010
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Cultural criminology
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| Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Women, Murder and Femininity -- Gender, Homicide and the Mid Twentieth-Century -- The Masculine Woman -- The Muse or Mastermind Dichotomy -- The Damaged Personality -- The Respectable Woman -- The Witch -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography. "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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 180 - 202 |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 205 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780230222755 978-0-230-22275-5 0230222757 0-230-22275-7 |