When Women Kill: Questions of Agency and Subjectivity

by Belinda Morrissey

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Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? 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. Morrissey argues that by denying the possibility of female agency in crimes of torture, rape and murder, feminist theorists are, with the best of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:041526006X

ISBN13:9780415260060

Release Date:March 2003

Publisher:Routledge

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Clinical Criminology Gender Studies Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Medical Medical Books Mental Health Murder & Mayhem Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences True Accounts Women's Studies

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