Women, murder, and femininity : gender representations of women who kill / Lizzie Seal.

• 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.

• "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"-- 

Ämnesord

Kvinnliga mördare  -- Storbritannien (sao)

Women murderers  -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Femininity  -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

364.152/30820941 (DDC)

Oer (kssb/8 (machine generated))