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

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"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.
Table of Contents:
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  • Preface
  • Women, Murder and Femininity
  • Gender, Homicide and the Mid Twentieth-Century
  • The Masculine Woman
  • The Muse or Mastermind Dichotomy
  • The Damaged Personality
  • The Respectable Woman
  • The Witch
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.