The Thing She Loves: Why Women Kill
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'Lady Macbeth called upon the heavens to 'unsex' her so that she might kill .' Barbara Creed
'Audrey Jacob stood perfectly upright, perfectly still, looking down at him, a smoking pistol in her right hand . It's quite all right. I know what I have done. I'm going quietly.' Jill Matthews
When a woman kills someone it is usually a person close to her. When convicted, she usually receives a harsher sentence than her male counterpart and is portrayed as an evil monster, hysteric or avenging mother. Why do women kill? Do they kill differently? Do the preoccupations of the jury and press help them or harm them?
To answer these questions the contributors have considered many cases, historical and modern. From Francis Knorr, the notorious 'babyfarmer' and killer who was hung in the nineteenth-century, to the 1920s ballroom drama of Audrey Jacob who killed her fiance while dancing with him, to the remarkable case of Erika Kontinnen who, despite years of beatings by him, only murdered her husband when he threatened to kill another woman.
Author: Kerry Greenwood
Format: Paperback, 168 pages, 130mm x 195mm
Published: 1996, Allen & Unwin, Australia
Genre: Gender Studies / Gay & Lesbian Studies
'Lady Macbeth called upon the heavens to 'unsex' her so that she might kill .' Barbara Creed
'Audrey Jacob stood perfectly upright, perfectly still, looking down at him, a smoking pistol in her right hand . It's quite all right. I know what I have done. I'm going quietly.' Jill Matthews
When a woman kills someone it is usually a person close to her. When convicted, she usually receives a harsher sentence than her male counterpart and is portrayed as an evil monster, hysteric or avenging mother. Why do women kill? Do they kill differently? Do the preoccupations of the jury and press help them or harm them?
To answer these questions the contributors have considered many cases, historical and modern. From Francis Knorr, the notorious 'babyfarmer' and killer who was hung in the nineteenth-century, to the 1920s ballroom drama of Audrey Jacob who killed her fiance while dancing with him, to the remarkable case of Erika Kontinnen who, despite years of beatings by him, only murdered her husband when he threatened to kill another woman.