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Representations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film, and Television : Examining the Patriarchal Presuppositions Behind the Treatment of Murderesses in Fiction and Reality.
This collection examines the meaning, construction and deconstruction of the murdering woman. These essays suggest that the ways in which gender, race, class and sexuality play into representations of women murderers is key to understanding the patriarchal underpinnings of our judicial system as the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- On the page. A "horrible lust for living blood" : supernatural female murderers in nineteenth-century literature
- A comparative reading of Mona Caird's The wing of Azrael (1889) and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1892)
- She hid it well : female serial killers in American hard-boiled detective fiction
- Speculative biographies : representing the lives of historical murdering women
- The murdering woman in a Chinese/Taiwanese cultural context
- The bodies of Lizzie Borden
- On the screen. Increasingly monstrous representation of real female killers in American cinema : I want to live! (Robert Wise, 1958) and Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003)
- "Ki-ki-ki Ma-ma-ma" : maternal virtue and Mrs. Voorhees
- Women on death row : documentary film and the cultural politics of identity
- Lethal ladies : the stars of John Waters' Female trouble and Serial mom
- The birth of the female youth rampage shooter
- Women who kill : Law & order, Dexter & The wire
- On the stage. Killing a husband : Alice Arden and her accomplices on the early modern stage
- "There's so much I want to tell her" : Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and the transference of femininity
- Sheila's deposition, 1997
- Another day in court : women playwrights
- The murdering mother in Marina Carr's plays.