| Description |
xxii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Cultural studies series
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Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index. |
| Contents |
History, memory, and mediations of murder. Mapping scripts and narratives of women who kill their husbands in Canada, 1866-1954: inscribing the everyday / Sylvie Frigon -- Neither forgotten nor fully remembered: tracing an ambivalent public memory on the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre / Sharon Rosenberg -- Missing: on the politics of re/presentation / Zoey Élouard Michele -- Killing the killers: women on death row in the United States / Kathleen O'Shea -- "Dealing with the devil": Karla Homolka and the absence of feminist criticism / Belinda Morrissey. Techniques and technologies of representing violence. Pearls and gore: the spectacle of woman in life and death / Annette Burfoot -- "I am awake in the place where women die": violent death in the art of Abigail Lane and Jenny Holzer / Lisa Coulthard -- Women and murder in the televirtuality film / Jack Boozer -- "I'm in there! I'm one of the women in that picture" / Margot Leigh Butler -- Killing time: the violent imaginary of feminist media / Susan Lord. National trouble: gendered violence. Dario Argento's The bird with the crystal plumage: caging women's rage / Frank Burke -- How positively levitating! Chinese heroines of Kung fu and Wuxia pian / Suzie S.F. Young -- The madwomen in our movies: female psycho-killers in American horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider -- Reverence, rape--and then revenge: popular Hindi cinema's "women's film" / Jyotika Virdi -- In the name of the nation: images of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters / Dorit Naaman. |
| Subject |
Women murderers.
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Women murderers. |
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Violence in women.
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Violence in women. |
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Women -- Violence against.
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Women -- Violence against. |
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Women murderers in motion pictures.
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Women murderers in motion pictures. |
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Violence in motion pictures.
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Violence in motion pictures. |
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Women in mass media.
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Women in mass media. |
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Violence in mass media.
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Violence in mass media. |
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Mass media -- Social aspects. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Lord, Susan, 1959-
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Burfoot, Annette.
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| ISBN |
0889204977 |
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9780889204973 |
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