When Women Kill by: Belinda Morrissey ISBN10: 1134510691
ISBN10 1134510691
PUBLISHER Routledge
PUBLISHED 2003
TYPE 256 Page Book
RATING 3.0 / 5.0 Avg.
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When Women Kill

When Women Kill

When Women Kill was written by and Belinda Morrissey. The 256 page book was published by Routledge in 2003 with an ISBN 10 of 1134510691. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. When Women Kill mentions 1 serial killers including Paul Kenneth Bernardo. The author Belinda Morrissey has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

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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 intentions, actually denying women the full freedom to be human. Case studies cover among others the battered wife, Pamela Sainsbury, who garrotted her husband as he slept, the serial killer, Aileen Wournos, who killed seven middle-aged men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, Tracey Wiggington, the...

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