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When Women Kill
Author | : Belinda Morrissey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2003-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134510689 |
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Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? Based on case-studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as victims rather than actors in the crimes they commit. Morrissey argues that by denying the possibility of female agency in crimes of torture, rape and murder, feminist theorists are, with the best of intentions, actually denying women the full freedom to be human. Case studies cover among others the battered wife, Pamela Sainsbury, who garrotted her husband as he slept, the serial killer, Aileen Wournos, who killed seven middle-aged men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, Tracey Wiggington, the so-called "lesbian vampire killer", and Karla Homolka who helped her husband kill two teenage girls in St. Catherines Ontario in 1993.
When Women Kill
Author | : Belinda Morrissey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2003-12-08 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781134510696 |
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Based on case studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as victims rather than actors in the crimes they commit.
Why Women Kill
Author | : Vickie Jensen |
Publsiher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Family violence |
ISBN | : 1588260275 |
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Traditional homicide indicators are based on male violence - and do little to predict when, or whom, women will kill. Vickie Jensen shows that gender equality plays an important role in predicting female homicide patterns. Jensen's analysis of the occurrence of women's homicide reveals that lethal violence is most likely when severe gender inequalities exist in the family group. Her conclusions establish the clear relationship between political, economic, legal, and social equality for women and the reduction of all forms of domestic violence.
When Women Kill
Author | : Coramae Richey Mann |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1996-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0791428125 |
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A fascinating profile of female homicide offenders emerges from this analysis of the characteristics of women murderers in six cities in the United States, including the circumstances of the murders, the role of the victims, the role of the perpetrators, and their fates in court.
When Battered Women Kill
Author | : Angela Browne |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781439118658 |
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A compassionate look at 42 battered women who felt "locked in with danger and so desperate that they killed a man they loved"; scholarly and compelling.
Women Who Kill Men
Author | : Gordon Morris Bakken,Brenda Farrington |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780803226579 |
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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their role in society were equally apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men examines eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder from 1870 to 1958. The fascinating details of these murder trials, documented in court records and embellished newspaper coverage, mirrored the changing public image of women. Although murder was clearly outside the norm for standard female behavior, most women and their attorneys relied on gendered stereotypes and language to create their defense and sometimes to leverage their status in a patriarchal system. Those who could successfully dress and act the part of the victim were most often able to win the sympathies of the jury. Gender mattered. And though the norms shifted over time, the press, attorneys, and juries were all informed by contemporary gender stereotypes.
Women who Kill
Author | : Ann Jones |
Publsiher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 080706775X |
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A study of women murderers in America from precolonial times to the present reveals a social history of the United States in terms of the women who murdered and their crimes
Women Murder and Femininity
Author | : L. Seal |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2010-10-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780230294509 |
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Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. A wide range of cases are discussed in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived, and how such cases reflect important social and cultural shifts.