Women, murder and femininity : gender representations of women who kill / Lizzie Seal.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2010Description: ix, 205 p. 23 cmISBN: - 9780230222755
- 0230222757
- 9781349308385
- 364.152/30820941 22
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-202) and index.
Introduction: women, murder and femininity -- Five gender representations of women who kill -- Gender, murder and mid-twentieth-century England and Wales -- Gender representations of twelve mid-twentieth-century women accused of murder.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.