Descript |
viii, 241 p. : ill. |
Contents |
Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century -- "Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-Francois 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. |
ISBN |
9780226003689 (e-book) |
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