REPRESENTATIONS OF MURDEROUS WOMEN IN LITERATURE, THEATRE, FILM, AND TELEVISION Examining the Patriarchal Presuppositions Behind the Treatment of Murderesses in Fiction and Reality
| Author: | Parker, Juli E. | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Pages: | 444 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-1458-4 978-0-7734-1458-7 | |
| Price: | $259.95 + shipping | |
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This collection examines the meaning, construction and deconstruction of the
murdering woman. These essays suggest that the ways in which gender, race, class and sexuality play into representations of women murderers is key to understanding the patriarchal underpinnings of our judicial system as they apply to women criminals.
murdering woman. These essays suggest that the ways in which gender, race, class and sexuality play into representations of women murderers is key to understanding the patriarchal underpinnings of our judicial system as they apply to women criminals.
Reviews
“Scholars and the reading public
will enjoy and profit by reading this
important anthology.”
– Prof. Betty L. Mitchell, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
From the Foreword:
“This collection of essays is an excellent departure point that already takes us on a needed, although sometimes disturbing, journey.”
– Prof. Paula Ruth Gilbert, George Mason University
– Prof. Betty L. Mitchell, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
From the Foreword:
“This collection of essays is an excellent departure point that already takes us on a needed, although sometimes disturbing, journey.”
– Prof. Paula Ruth Gilbert, George Mason University
Table of Contents
Chapter
1.
A “horrible lust for living blood”:
Supernatural Female Murderers in Nineteenth- Century Literature
Chapter 2. A Comparative Reading of Mona Caird’s The Wing of Azrael (1889)
and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1892)
Chapter 3. She Hid it Well:
Female Serial Killers in American Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
Chapter 4. Speculative Biographies:
Representing the Lives of Historical Murdering Women
Chapter 5. The Murdering Woman in a Chinese/Taiwanese Cultural Context
Chapter 6. The Bodies of Lizzie Borden
Chapter 7. Increasingly Monstrous Representation of Real Female Killers in American Cinema:
I Want To Live! (Robert Wise, 1958) and Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003)
Chapter 8. “Ki-ki-ki Ma-ma-ma”:
Maternal Virtue and Mrs. Voorhees
Chapter 9. Women on Death Row:
Documentary Film and the Cultural Politics of Identity
Chapter 10. Lethal Ladies:
The Stars of John Waters’ Female Trouble and Serial Mom
Chapter 11. The Birth of the Female Youth Rampage
Chapter 12. Women Who Kill:
Law & Order, Dexter & The Wire
Chapter 13. Killing a Husband:
Alice Arden and her Accomplices on the Early Modern Stage
Chapter 14. “There’s so much I want to tell her”:
Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal and the Transference of Femininity
Chapter 15. Sheila's Deposition, 1997
Chapter 16. Another Day in Court:
Women Playwrights
Chapter 17. The Murdering Mother in Marina Carr’s Plays
Supernatural Female Murderers in Nineteenth- Century Literature
Chapter 2. A Comparative Reading of Mona Caird’s The Wing of Azrael (1889)
and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1892)
Chapter 3. She Hid it Well:
Female Serial Killers in American Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
Chapter 4. Speculative Biographies:
Representing the Lives of Historical Murdering Women
Chapter 5. The Murdering Woman in a Chinese/Taiwanese Cultural Context
Chapter 6. The Bodies of Lizzie Borden
Chapter 7. Increasingly Monstrous Representation of Real Female Killers in American Cinema:
I Want To Live! (Robert Wise, 1958) and Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003)
Chapter 8. “Ki-ki-ki Ma-ma-ma”:
Maternal Virtue and Mrs. Voorhees
Chapter 9. Women on Death Row:
Documentary Film and the Cultural Politics of Identity
Chapter 10. Lethal Ladies:
The Stars of John Waters’ Female Trouble and Serial Mom
Chapter 11. The Birth of the Female Youth Rampage
Chapter 12. Women Who Kill:
Law & Order, Dexter & The Wire
Chapter 13. Killing a Husband:
Alice Arden and her Accomplices on the Early Modern Stage
Chapter 14. “There’s so much I want to tell her”:
Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal and the Transference of Femininity
Chapter 15. Sheila's Deposition, 1997
Chapter 16. Another Day in Court:
Women Playwrights
Chapter 17. The Murdering Mother in Marina Carr’s Plays