A01=Belinda Morrissey
agency in violent crime
aileen
Aileen Wuornos
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Author_Belinda Morrissey
battered
Battered Women
Battered Women Kill
Beating Fantasy
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criminology research
Defence Laws
Diminished Responsibility
discourse
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female
Female Killers
female perpetrator legal narratives
Female Sadism
feminist
feminist criminology
Feminist Legal Discourse
Feminist Legal Theorists
Feminist Legal Theory
gendered violence studies
Hated Men
Karla Homolka
killers
Kristen French
legal
Legal Discourse
legal subjectivity
Lesbian Vampire
Mainstream Legal Discourse
media representation crime
Prosecution Narrative
Sainsbury Case
Stock Stories
theory
Traditional Legal Discourse
Vampire Narrative
Vampire Tale
woman
Women Kill
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- ISBN 9780415260060
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Mar 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 so-called "lesbian vampire killer", and Karla Homolka who helped her husband kill two teenage girls in St. Catherines Ontario in 1993.
