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Killing women : the visual culture of gender and violence

Title: Killing women : the visual culture of gender and violence / Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord, editors.
Publication: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2006.

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xxii, 328 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Cultural studies series

Uniform Title

Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

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JFE 07-1683

ISBN

0889204977
9780889204973

LCCN

9780889204973

OCLC

71540242

Title

Killing women : the visual culture of gender and violence / Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord, editors.

Imprint

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2006.

Series

Cultural studies series

Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-315) and index.

Added Author

Lord, Susan, 1959-

Burfoot, Annette, 1958-

Other Standard Identifier

9780889204973

Research Call Number

JFE 07-1683

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