When women kill : questions of agency and subjectivity /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morrissey, Belinda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:Transformations.
Subjects:
Women murderers > Case studies.
Murder in mass media > Case studies.
Meurtrières > Études de cas.
Meurtre dans les médias > Études de cas.
TRUE CRIME > Murder > General.
Murder in mass media.
Women murderers.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Traumatized discourses : narrating violence
  • 2. Versions of the self : narrating the subjectivities of women who kill
  • 3. Inconceivable survivors : battered women who kill
  • 4. Cultural anxiety and vampiric voracity : Tracey Wigginton's 'hunger'
  • 5. Beyond villainy : the 'limit' cases of Karla Homolka and Valmae Beck
  • Conclusion: An odyssey around violent female subjects.

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