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The subject of murder : gender, exceptionality, and the modern killer
- Title
- The subject of murder : gender, exceptionality, and the modern killer / Lisa Downing.
- Author
- Downing, Lisa.
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- viii, 241 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century -- "Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-François 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-3261
- ISBN
- 9780226003405 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
- 022600340X (hardcover : alkaline paper)
- 9780226003542 (pbk. : alkaline paper)
- 022600354X (pbk. : alkaline paper)
- LCCN
- 2012024191
- OCLC
- 796002517
- Author
- Downing, Lisa.
- Title
- The subject of murder : gender, exceptionality, and the modern killer / Lisa Downing.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-3261