When women kill : : four crimes retold

Title When women kill : : four crimes retold
Names Trabucco Zerán, Alia.
Hughes, Sophie. Translator
Book Number DB126223
Title Status In Process
Language English
Annotation "When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in favor of dissecting how all four were perpetrators of grievous violent acts at the same time as being victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling challenges the archetype of the woman murderer and reveals another narrative, one as disturbing and provocative as the transgressions themselves: what causes women to lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity, and how do we--readers, viewers, the media, the art world, the political establishment--treat them once they do? Expertly intertwining true crime, critical essay, and research diary, International Booker Prize finalist Alia Trabucco Zerán (The Remainder), in a translation by Sophie Hughes (Hurricane Season), brings an overdue feminist perspective to the study of deviant women." -- Provided by publisher. -- Translated from the original Spanish edition. -- Some violence and some strong language.
Medium Digital Books
Audience Notes Contains some violence. NLS/BPH
Contains some strong language. NLS/BPH
Local Subject Social problems - Criminology, Crime - 364
Women's Interest - WOM
Social problems, services & associations - 360
LC Subject True crime stories
Women murderers - Chile - History - 20th century
Sex role
Nonfiction
Call Number 364.15230983 ANF ANF
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress,
Original Publication Recorded from: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2022. 9781566896412
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