The subject of murder : gender, exceptionality, and the modern killer / Lisa Downing.

  • Downing, Lisa.
Date:
2013
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Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Physical description

viii, 241 pages ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century -- "Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-François Lacenaire -- The "angel of arsenic": Marie Lafarge -- The beast in man: Jack and the rippers who came after -- The twentieth-century Anglo-American killer -- "Infanticidal" femininity: Myra Hindley -- "Monochrome man": Dennis Nilsen -- Serial killing and the dissident woman: Aileen Wuornos -- Kids who kill: defying the stereotype of the murderer -- By way of brief conclusion.

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    History of Medicine
    KM.AA8-9
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ISBN

  • 9780226003405
  • 022600340X
  • 9780226003542
  • 022600354X