Women, Murder and Femininity

Gender Representations of Women Who Kill
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-30838-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

Reihe: Cultural Criminology

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seal, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Women, Murder and Femininity PART 1: FIVE GENDER REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN WHO KILL PART 2: GENDER, MURDER AND MID TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLAND AND WALES Gender Representations of Twelve Mid Twentieth-Century Women Accused of Murder Conclusion to Part 2 Appendix - Two Further Cases from the Sample Endnotes Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

LIZZIE SEAL is Lecturer in Criminology at Durham University, UK. She has written on perceptions of women accused of murder and public views of the death penalty in England and Wales.