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

"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"--

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Seal, Lizzie, 1977-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:	Cultural criminology.
Subjects:	Women murderers > Great Britain. Femininity > Great Britain.