Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Female Killers in Cultural Criminology - Perfect for Gender Studies & Crime Analysis Research

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Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. A wide range of cases are discussed in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived, and how such cases reflect important social and cultural shifts.