Parker, Juli L.

Representations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film, and Television. Examining the Patriarchal Presuppositions Behind the Treatment of Murderesses in Fiction and Reality.

Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. XVIII, 424 pages. Original Hardcover. Some staining to the rear board. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

A collection that examines the meaning, construction and deconstruction of the murdering woman. It suggests 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.

Includes the following chapters: I. A “horrible lust for living blood” – Supernatural Female Murderers in Nineteenth-Century Literature / II. A comparative Reading of Mona Caird’s “The Wing of Azrael (1889) and Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” (1892) / How are the Murderesses constructed ? Who makes the Victims ? / III. She hid it well: Female Serial Killers in American Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction / The Science of Crimonology / The Literary Representations of the Femme Fatale / IV. Speculative Biographies – Representing the Lives of Historical Murdering Women – Speculative Biography – Neither Fiends nor Angels – Agnes Magnúsdóttir – Grace Marks – Edith Thompson – Speculative Biographies of Murdering Women/ V. The Murdering Woman in a Chinese / Taiwanese Cultural Context / VI. The Bodies of Lizzie Borden – Female Friendships and Contagious Desires – Lizzie and the Ravenous Body / VII. Increasingly Monstrous Representation of Real Female Killers in American Cinema: “I want to Live !” (Robert Wise, 1958) and “Monster” (Patty Jenkins, 2003) – Oscar Winning Transformations – “Monster” Re-Presents a Sensationalist Media’s Dream – Wuornos “the Prostitute” as Masculine-Aspected Monster – A Film in Denial – “Monster” rejects the Feminist and Abolitionist Spirit of “I want to Live !” – Conclusion / VIII. “Ki-ki-ki M-ma-ma”: Maternal Virtue and Mrs. Voorhees / IX. Women on Death Row: Documentary Film and the Cultural Politics of Identity – It’s a Man’s World ? / Sympathy for the Devil / Sex, Law and Taboo / X. Lethal Ladies: The Stars of John Waters’ “Female Trouble” and “Serial Mom” / The Trials – Conclusion / XI. The Birth of the Female Youth Rampage Shooter / Introduction: “Youth Violence” / The Birth of the Female Shooter / Killer as Victim / Victim as Suspect / Killer as Sexual Deviant / Violence, Agency, and Women’s Claims to American Citizenship / Table One / XII. Women who Kill: “Law & Order, Dexter & The Wire” / Law and Order: Black Widow and Serial Killers / Dexter: Fatal Atrraction and Serial Killers / The Wire: Enforcer and Stick-Up Artist / Discussion / XIII. Killing a Husband: Alice Arden and her Accomplices on the Early Modern Stage / The Play and the Context / Thomas Arden and the Household Hierarchy / Alice Arden and her Crimes / Mosby’s Social Climb / Conceptions of Manhood: Black Will, Shakebag and Miuchael / Conclusion: Lessons in Transgression / XIV. “There’s so much i want to tell her” – Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal and the Transference of Femininity / XV. Sheila’s Deposition, 1997 / XVI. Another Day in Court – Women Playwrights – Staging True Stories / Trifles / Machinal / Self Defense or Death of Some Salesmen / XVII. The Murdering Mother in Marina Carr’s Plays //

• Keywords: Catalogue Three – Literature by Women · Crime · criminology · David Puttnam · David Puttnam Collection · Film & TV Rare · Film Studies · Film Theory · Frauen · Mordfall · Women · Women in History – Rare · Women in Literature · Women’s Studies
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780773414587
• Inventory Number: 27397AB

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