Moving targets : women, murder and representation /

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Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994.
Description:302 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1555377
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Other authors / contributors:Birch, Helen
ISBN:0520085760 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520085736 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Helen Birch
  • An eye for an eye: The case of the Papin sisters / Nicole Ward Jouve
  • If looks could kill: Myra Hindley and the iconography of evil / Helen Birch
  • The trials of motherhood: The case of Azaria and Lindy Chamberlain / Briar Wood
  • Biting the hand that breeds: The trials of Tracey Wigginton / Deb Verhoeven
  • A decade of deadly dolls: Hollywood and the woman killer / Christine Holmlund
  • Body talk: The sexual politics of PMT / Melissa Benn
  • Pleading for time: Justice for battered women who kill / Lorraine Radford
  • Rocking the cradle: Mothers who kill their children / Allison Morris and Ania Wilczynski
  • 'Angels of death': The Lainz Hospital murders / Bettina Heidkamp
  • The female serial killer: An evolving criminality / Candice Skrapec.