Representations of murderous women in literature, theatre, film, and television

examining the patriarchal presuppositions behind the treatment of murderesses in fiction and reality

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Representations of murderous women in literature, theatre, film, and television

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Table of Contents

Introduction
On the page. A "horrible lust for living blood" : supernatural female murderers in nineteenth-century literature
A comparative reading of Mona Caird's The wing of Azrael (1889) and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1892)
She hid it well : female serial killers in American hard-boiled detective fiction
Speculative biographies : representing the lives of historical murdering women
The murdering woman in a Chinese/Taiwanese cultural context
The bodies of Lizzie Borden
On the screen. Increasingly monstrous representation of real female killers in American cinema : I want to live! (Robert Wise, 1958) and Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003)
"Ki-ki-ki Ma-ma-ma" : maternal virtue and Mrs. Voorhees
Women on death row : documentary film and the cultural politics of identity
Lethal ladies : the stars of John Waters' Female trouble and Serial mom
The birth of the female youth rampage shooter
Women who kill : Law & order, Dexter & The wire
On the stage. Killing a husband : Alice Arden and her accomplices on the early modern stage
"There's so much I want to tell her" : Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and the transference of femininity
Sheila's deposition, 1997
Another day in court : women playwrights
The murdering mother in Marina Carr's plays.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
809/.933556
Library of Congress
PN56.M85 R47 2010

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Pagination
xviii, 424 p.
Number of pages
424

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31140003M
ISBN 10
0773414584
ISBN 13
9780773414587
LCCN
2010046024

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