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Women, murder and femininity : gender representations of women who kill / Lizzie Seal.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2010Description: ix, 205 p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230222755
  • 0230222757
  • 9781349308385
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.152/30820941 22
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.