When Women Kill: Questions of Agency and Subjectivity (Transformations) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

When Women Kill: Questions of Agency and Subjectivity (Transformations) Book

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.Read More

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  • 041526006X
  • 9780415260060
  • Belinda Morrissey
  • 13 March 2003
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • 1
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