Women, murder, and femininity

By Lizzie Seal

Subjects: Women, social conditions, Femininity, Female offenders, Women murderers, Women, psychology

Description: "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"--