Women, murder, and femininity [electronic resource] : gender representations of women who kill / Lizzie Seal.
Seal, Lizzie, 1977-
2010
HV6535.G4 S34 2010eb
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Title Women, murder, and femininity [electronic resource] : gender representations of women who kill / Lizzie Seal.
Author Seal, Lizzie, 1977-
ISBN 9780230294509 (electronic book)
9780230222755
Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 205 p.)
Call Number HV6535.G4 S34 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.152/30820941
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Cultural criminology.
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Preface
Introduction : Women, murder and femininity
Five gender representations of women who kill
Gender, murder and mid-twentieth-century England and Wales
Gender representations of twelve mid-twentieth-century women accused of murder
Conclusion to part II
Notes
Bibliography.

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