When Women Kill (eBook)

Alia Trabucco Zerán (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Coffee House Press (Verlag)
978-1-56689-641-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A genre-bending feminist account of the lives and crimes of four women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender.When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zern offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in order to dissect how all four were both perpetrators of violent acts and victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling challenges the archetype of the woman murderer and reveals another narrative, one as disturbing and provocative as the transgressions themselves: What makes women lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity, and how do wereaders, viewers, the media, the art world, the political establishmenttreat them when they do?Expertly intertwining true crime, critical essay, and research diary, International Booker Prize finalist Alia Trabucco Zern (The Remainder), in a translation by Sophie Hughes, brings an overdue feminist perspective to the study of deviant women.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.4.2022
• Übersetzer: Sophie Hughes
• Zusatzinfo: 45 black and white photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Schlagworte: criminal justice • Deviant femininity • Domestic Abuse • female anger • gendered violence • gender roles • hysterical • misogyny • Psychological • Sexual assault • Sexual Violence • Trial • Unjust
• ISBN-10: 1-56689-641-X / 156689641X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-641-2 / 9781566896412