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| 副題名: |
gender representations of women who kill |
| 作者: |
SealLizzie, 1977- |
| 出版地: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2010 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource (ix, 205 p.) |
| 集叢名: |
Cultural criminology |
| 標題: |
Women murderers - Great Britain. - |
| 標題: |
Femininity - Great Britain. - |
| 標題: |
Femininity. - |
| 標題: |
Great Britain. - |
| 標題: |
Women murderers. - |
| 標題: |
TRUE CRIME - Murder - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230294509An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 摘要註: |
This book examines how women who kill have been perceived in terms of their gender, exploring how murder by women is seen as especially transgressive, and examining the impact this has on how women who kill are viewed. The study focuses on murders by women that are considered to be particularly unusual. Lizzie Seal develops a typology of five main representations of such women, including the 'masculine woman' and the 'witch', and uses it in order to analyse specific causes. The book covers well known examples such as Myra Hindley, Rose West, Lizzie Borden and Aileen Wuornos, as well as presenting original research into cases from mid twentieth-century England and Wales, arguing that portrayals of women who kill can shed light on the hopes, fears and anxieties of the wider culture. |
| ISBN: |
9780230294509electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230294502electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
hardback |
| ISBN: |
hardback |
| 內容註: |
Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Women, Murder and Femininity; Feminist research and women who kill; Stories of women who kill; Gender regulation and women who kill; Murder, meaning and culture; Developing a feminist framework; Part I; Five Gender Representations of Women Who Kill; Part II; 1 Gender, Murder and Mid-Twentieth-Century England and Wales; 2 Gender Representations of Twelve Mid-Twentieth-Century Women Accused of Murder; 3 Conclusion to Part II; Appendix Two Further Cases from the Sample; Hilde Adames (DPP2/3098); Alice Louisa Lyons (DPP2/3020); Notes. |